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We present a differentiable formulation of abstract chemical reaction networks (CRNs) that can be trained to solve a variety of computational tasks. Chemical reaction networks are one of the most fundamental computational substrates used by…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-07 Alexander Mordvintsev , Ettore Randazzo , Eyvind Niklasson

We present a data-driven verification approach that determines whether or not a given chemical reaction network (CRN) satisfies a given property, expressed as a formula in a modal logic. Our approach consists of three phases, integrating…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Gareth W. Molyneux , Viraj B. Wijesuriya , Alessandro Abate

The dynamics of a chemical reaction network (CRN) is often modelled under the assumption of mass action kinetics by a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with polynomial right-hand sides that describe the time evolution of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Radek Erban , Hye-Won Kang

We propose a direct optimization framework for learning reduced and sparse chemical reaction networks (CRNs) from time-series trajectory data. In contrast to widely used indirect methods-such as those based on sparse identification of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Maurice Filo , Mustafa Khammash

Living systems operate out of equilibrium, continuously consuming energy to sustain organised, functional states. Their emergent behaviour usually relies on a set of interconnected chemical reaction networks (CRNs) driven by external fluxes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shiling Liang , Paolo De Los Rios , Daniel Maria Busiello

We investigate the dynamics of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) with the goal of deriving an upper bound on their reaction rates. This task is challenging due to the nonlinear nature and discrete structure inherent in CRNs. To address…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Tsuyoshi Mizohata , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi , Louis-S. Bouchard , Hideyuki Miyahara

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 use of mathematical models has helped to shed light on countless phenomena in chemistry and biology. Often, though, one finds that systems of interest in these fields are dauntingly complex. In this paper, we attempt to synthesize and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-09-04 Mark Lipson

Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) model the behavior of chemical reactions in well-mixed solutions and they can be designed to perform computations. In this tutorial we give an overview of various computational models for CRNs. Moreover, we…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Robert Brijder

Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are foundational models for describing complex biochemical processes. We study noncompetitive CRNs, a class of networks whose static states are rate-independent, and that can implement ReLU neural networks.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-22 Louis Faul , Xavier Richard , Mary Betrisey , Christian Mazza

Motivated by recent progress on the interplay between graph theory, dynamics, and systems theory, we revisit the analysis of chemical reaction networks described by mass action kinetics. For reaction networks possessing a thermodynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Arjan van der Schaft , Shodhan Rao , Bayu Jayawardhana

This paper presents new results about the optimization based generation of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) of higher deficiency. Firstly, it is shown that the graph structure of the realization containing the maximal number of reactions…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-03-23 Gabor Szederkenyi , Katalin M. Hangos , Tamas Peni

Under suitable assumptions, the dynamic behaviour of a chemical reaction network is governed by an autonomous set of polynomial ordinary differential equations over continuous variables representing the concentrations of the reactant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Matthew D. Johnston , David Siegel

Information geometry is based on classical Legendre duality but allows to incorporate additional structure such as algebraic constraints and Bregman divergence functions. It is naturally suited, and has been successfully used, to describe…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-26 Dimitri Loutchko , Yuki Sughiyama , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

We present a systematic investigation using graph neural networks (GNNs) to model organic chemical reactions. To do so, we prepared a dataset collection of four ubiquitous reactions from the organic chemistry literature. We evaluate seven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Serim Ryou , Michael R. Maser , Alexander Y. Cui , Travis J. DeLano , Yisong Yue , Sarah E. Reisman

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

Coupled chemical interactions in a well-mixed solution are commonly formalized as chemical reaction networks (CRNs). However, despite the widespread use of CRNs in the natural sciences, the range of computational behaviors exhibited by CRNs…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ho-Lin Chen , David Doty , Wyatt Reeves , David Soloveichik

Dynamical systems in biology are complex, and one often does not have comprehensive knowledge about the interactions involved. Chemical reaction network (CRN) inference aims to identify, from observing species concentrations over time, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-15 Yong See Foo , Adriana Zanca , Jennifer A. Flegg , Ivo Siekmann

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