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. 2002 Aug;11(8):1897–1907. doi: 10.1110/ps.4940102

Table 5.

Gaussian Evolutionary Method (GEM) search mechanisms and genetic operators

Genetic operator (see Materials and Methods) Local Global Discrete Continuous
Rotamer mutation operator no yes yes no
Decreasing-based Gaussian mutation no yes no yes
Self-adaptive Gaussian mutation yes noa no yes
Family competition yes no yes yes

a Self-adaptive Gaussian mutation may be viewed as both a local and a global search operator.