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We show that adding new chemical species into the reactions of a chemical reaction network (CRN) in such a way that the rank of the network remains unchanged preserves its capacity for multiple nondegenerate equilibria and/or periodic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Murad Banaji , Balázs Boros , Josef Hofbauer

Synthetic biology is a rapidly emerging research area, with expected wide-ranging impact in biology, nanofabrication, and medicine. A key technical challenge lies in embedding computation in molecular contexts where electronic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Marko Vasic , David Soloveichik , Sarfraz Khurshid

Chemical reaction networks (CRN) comprise an important class of models to understand biological functions such as cellular information processing, the robustness and control of metabolic pathways, circadian rhythms, and many more. However,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-25 Dimitri Loutchko , Yuki Sughiyama , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) are a well-established model of distributed computing characterized by quantities of molecular species that can transform or change through applications of reactions. A fundamental problem in CRNs is the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Divya Bajaj , Bin Fu , Ryan Knobel , Austin Luchsinger , Aiden Massie , Pablo Santos , Ramiro Santos , Robert Schweller , Evan Tomai , Tim Wylie

Chemical systems are interpreted through the species they contain and the reactions they may undergo, i.e., their chemical reaction network (CRN). In spite of their central importance to chemistry, the structure of CRNs continues to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Alex Blokhuis , Martijn van Kuppeveld , Daan van de Weem , Robert Pollice

Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are fundamental computational models used to study the behavior of chemical reactions in well-mixed solutions. They have been used extensively to model a broad range of biological systems, and are primarily…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-13 J. N. Mueller , J. N. Corcoran

The fundamental decomposition of a chemical reaction network (CRN) is induced by partitioning the reaction set into "fundamental classes". It was the basis of the Higher Deficiency Algorithm for mass action systems of Ji and Feinberg, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-08-13 Bryan S. Hernandez

Understanding the emergent behavior of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) is a fundamental aspect of biology and its origin from inanimate matter. A closed CRN monotonically tends to thermal equilibrium, but when it is opened to external…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-16 Masanari Shimada , Pegah Behrad , Eric De Giuli

A characteristic-dependent linear rank inequality is a linear inequality that holds by ranks of subspaces of a vector space over a finite field of determined characteristic, and does not in general hold over other characteristics. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Victor Pena , Humberto Sarria

Chemical reactions occur in energy, environmental, biological, and many other natural systems, and the inference of the reaction networks is essential to understand and design the chemical processes in engineering and life sciences. Yet,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-22 Weiqi Ji , Sili Deng

We analyze the computational complexity of basic reconfiguration problems for the recently introduced surface Chemical Reaction Networks (sCRNs), where ordered pairs of adjacent species nondeterministically transform into a different…

The continuous random network (CRN) model is an idealized model for perfectly coordinated amorphous semiconductors. The quality of a CRN can be assessed in terms of topological and configurational properties, including coordination,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 G. T. Barkema , N. Mousseau

We show that if a chemical reaction network (CRN) admits nondegenerate (resp., linearly stable) oscillation, and we add new reversible reactions involving new species to this CRN, then the new CRN so created also admits nondegenerate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Murad Banaji

We derive the nonequilibrium conductance matrix for open stationary Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) described by a deterministic mass action kinetic equation. As an illustration, we determine the nonequilibrium conductance matrix of a CRN…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-27 Paul Raux , Christophe Goupil , Gatien Verley

The behavior of some stochastic chemical reaction networks is largely unaffected by slight inaccuracies in reaction rates. We formalize the robustness of state probabilities to reaction rate deviations, and describe a formal connection…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-01-28 David Soloveichik

The study of the dynamics of chemical reactions, and in particular phenomena such as oscillating reactions, has led to the recognition that many dynamical properties of a chemical reaction can be predicted from graph theoretical properties…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-08 J. J. P. Veerman , Tessa Whalen-Wagner , Ewan Kummel

Reaction networks (RNs) comprise a set $X$ of species and a set $\mathscr{R}$ of reactions $Y\to Y'$, each converting a multiset of educts $Y\subseteq X$ into a multiset $Y'\subseteq X$ of products. RNs are equivalent to directed…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-06 Stefan Müller , Christoph Flamm , Peter F. Stadler

The thermodynamic and dynamical conditions necessary to observe indefinite growth in homogeneous open chemical reaction networks (CRNs) satisfying mass action kinetics were presented in Srinivas et al. (2023): Unimolecular CRNs can only…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-05 Shesha Gopal Marehalli Srinivas , Francesco Avanzini , Massimiliano Esposito

Power law dynamics is used to describe the stability behavior in metabolic networks such as chemical reaction networks (CRN's). These systems allow multiple steady states within a single stoichiometric class. On the other side thermodynamic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Gunther Friedrich Neumann

Autocatalysis is an important feature of metabolic networks, contributing crucially to the self-maintenance of organisms. Autocatalytic subsystems of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are characterized in terms of algebraic conditions on…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-06 Richard Golnik , Thomas Gatter , Peter F. Stadler , Nicola Vassena