Scientists have prototyped a new method for 'rationally engineering' enzymes to deliver improved performance. They have devised an algorithm, which takes into account an enzyme's evolutionary history, ...

Evolutionary computation encompasses a family of population-based metaheuristic methods inspired by natural evolution. Candidate solutions, encoded as genotypes, undergo iterative cycles of variation ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says that when quantum computing becomes generally available, evolutionary algorithms for training huge neural networks could become a very important and ...