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We address a fundamental question: under which conditions do the dynamics and thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks (CRNs), grounded on the notion of idealized chemostats that exchange selected species, emerge from underlying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-17 Benedikt Remlein , Massimiliano Esposito , Francesco Avanzini

The Turing completeness of continuous Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) states that any computable real function can be computed by a continuous CRN on a finite set of molecular species, possibly restricted to elementary reactions, i.e.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-24 Mathieu Hemery , François Fages

Can a micron sized sack of interacting molecules autonomously learn an internal model of a complex and fluctuating environment? We draw insights from control theory, machine learning theory, chemical reaction network theory, and statistical…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-08 William Poole , Thomas E. Ouldridge , Manoj Gopalkrishnan

In modern scientific research, massive datasets with huge numbers of observations are frequently encountered. To facilitate the computational process, a divide-and-conquer scheme is often used for the analysis of big data. In such a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-06 Chen Xu , Yongquan Zhang , Runze Li

How smart can a micron-sized bag of chemicals be? How can an artificial or real cell make inferences about its environment? From which kinds of probability distributions can chemical reaction networks sample? We begin tackling these…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-05 William Poole , Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz , Abhishek Behera , Nick S. Jones , Thomas E. Ouldridge , Erik Winfree , Manoj Gopalkrishnan

Reversibility, weak reversibility and deficiency, detailed and complex balancing are generally not "encoded" in the kinetic differential equations but they are realization properties that may imply local or even global asymptotic stability…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-05-11 Gabor Szederkenyi , Katalin M. Hangos

Continuous-time Markov chains are frequently used as stochastic models for chemical reaction networks, especially in the growing field of systems biology. A fundamental problem for these Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks (SCRNs) is to…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Felipe A. Campos , Simone Bruno , Yi Fu , Domitilla Del Vecchio , Ruth J. Williams

Distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) enhances the understanding of the effects of the randomness in the environment by letting agents learn the distribution of a random return, rather than its expected value as in standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Zifan Wang , Yulong Gao , Siyi Wang , Michael M. Zavlanos , Alessandro Abate , Karl H. Johansson

We mathematically prove that chemical reaction networks without hidden layers can solve tasks for which spiking neural networks require hidden layers. Our proof uses the deterministic mass-action kinetics formulation of chemical reaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sophie Jaffard , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

The reservoir computing networks (RCNs) have been successfully employed as a tool in learning and complex decision-making tasks. Despite their efficiency and low training cost, practical applications of RCNs rely heavily on empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Wei Miao , Vignesh Narayanan , Jr-Shin Li

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

Genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) have been widely studied, yet there is a lack of understanding with regards to the final size and properties of these networks, mainly due to no network currently being complete. In this study, we analyzed…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-13 Adrian I. Campos-González , Julio A. Freyre-González

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

Both natural and synthetic chemical systems not only exhibit a range of non-trivial dynamics, but also transition between qualitatively different dynamical behaviours as environmental parameters change. Such transitions are called…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-03 Alexander Dack , Tomislav Plesa , Thomas E. Ouldridge

Stochastic simulation is a widely used method for estimating quantities in models of chemical reaction networks where uncertainty plays a crucial role. However, reducing the statistical uncertainty of the corresponding estimators requires…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-13 Michael Backenköhler , Luca Bortolussi , Verena Wolf

Here we address the challenge of profiling causal properties and tracking the transformation of chemical compounds from an algorithmic perspective. We explore the potential of applying a computational interventional calculus based on the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-20 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Ming-Mei Shang , Jesper Tegnér

We address a fundamental problem in chemistry known as chemical reaction product prediction. Our main insight is that the input reactant and reagent molecules can be jointly represented as a graph, and the process of generating product…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Chemical reaction network theory provides powerful tools for rigorously understanding chemical reactions and the dynamical systems and differential equations that represent them. A frequent issue with mathematical analyses of these networks…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-23 Joseph M. Sauder , Bruce P. Ayati , Ryan Kinser

The asymptotic properties of some Markov processes associated to stochastic chemical reaction networks (CRNs) driven by the kinetics of the law of mass action are analyzed. The scaling regime introduced in the paper assumes that the norm of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Lucie Laurence , Philippe Robert

The potential number of drug like small molecules is estimated to be between 10^23 and 10^60 while current databases of known compounds are orders of magnitude smaller with approximately 10^8 compounds. This discrepancy has led to an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Esben Jannik Bjerrum , Richard Threlfall