# 9.4 Energy Landscapes

> Energy Landscapes (Module 9: The Optimizer). Key concept: Native state as global energy minimum. Read a folding funnel and explain what its depth and width represent.

Energy Landscapes (Module 9: The Optimizer). Key concept: Native state as global energy minimum. Read a folding funnel and explain what its depth and width represent.

- Read a folding funnel and explain what its depth and width represent
- Recognise kinetic traps and shallow funnels, and what each one predicts experimentally
- Explain what a stabilising mutation changes on the landscape — deepening the native well, or raising the unfolded state

## Links

- [Module 9: The Optimizer](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9)
- [Introduction](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/intro)
- [9.1 Proteins in Motion](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/1)
- [9.2 B-Factors and Flexibility](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/2)
- [9.3 Structural Diagnostics](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/3)
- [9.5 Thermostability Engineering](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/5)
- [9.integration The Guided Repair](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/integration)
- [The Stability Optimizer](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/capstone)
- [Use the Tools](https://proteindesign.academy/module/9/tools)