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A chemical reaction network (CRN) is composed of reactions that can be seen as interactions among entities called species, which exist within the system. Endowed with kinetics, CRN has a corresponding set of ordinary differential equations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Bryan S. Hernandez , Ralph John L. De la Cruz

Motivation: A Chemical Reaction Network (CRN) is a set of chemical reactions, which can be very complex and difficult to analyze. Indeed, dynamical properties of CRNs can be described by a set of non-linear differential equations that…

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We explore the range of probabilistic behaviours that can be engineered with Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs). We show that at steady state CRNs are able to "program" any distribution with finite support in $\mathbb{N}^m$, with $m \geq 1$.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Luca Cardelli , Marta Kwiatkowska , Luca Laurenti

We propose a unified framework that allows for the full mechanistic reconstruction of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) from concentration data. The framework utilizes an integral formulation of the differential equations governing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Abraham Reyes-Velazquez , Stefan Güttel , Igor Larrosa , Jonas Latz

Stochastic chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are complex systems which combine the features of concurrent transformation of multiple variables in each elementary reaction event, and nonlinear relations between states and their rates of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Eric Smith , Supriya Krishnamurthy

In order to fully exploit the potential of molecular communication (MC) for intra-body communication, practically implementable cellular receivers are an important long-term goal. A variety of receiver architectures based on chemical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Bastian Heinlein , Lukas Brand , Malcolm Egan , Maximilian Schäfer , Robert Schober , Sebastian Lotter

Proposals for molecular communication networks as part of a future internet of bio-nano-things have become more intricate and the question of practical implementation is gaining more importance. One option is to apply detailed chemical…

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Molecular circuits capable of autonomous learning could unlock novel applications in fields such as bioengineering and synthetic biology. To this end, existing chemical implementations of neural computing have mainly relied on emulating…

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Continuous time Markov chains are commonly used as models for the stochastic behavior of chemical reaction networks. More precisely, these Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks (SCRNs) are frequently used to gain a mechanistic understanding…

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We present two quantitative behavioral equivalences over species of a chemical reaction network (CRN) with semantics based on ordinary differential equations. Forward CRN bisimulation identifies a partition where each equivalence class…

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Embedding computation in biochemical environments incompatible with traditional electronics is expected to have wide-ranging impact in synthetic biology, medicine, nanofabrication and other fields. Natural biochemical systems are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Marko Vasic , Cameron Chalk , Austin Luchsinger , Sarfraz Khurshid , David Soloveichik

In this paper, it is presented a methodology for implementing arbitrarily constructed time-homogenous Markov chains with biochemical systems. Not only discrete but also continuous-time Markov chains are allowed to be computed. By employing…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-16 Chuan Zhang , Ziyuan Shen , Wei Wei , Jing Zhao , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You

Based on the theory of stochastic chemical kinetics, the inherent randomness and stochasticity of biochemical reaction networks can be accurately described by discrete-state continuous-time Markov chains. The analysis of such processes is,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Andreychenko Alexander , Mikeev Linar , Wolf Verena

Much of the theory on chemical-reaction networks (CRNs) has been developed in the ideal-solution limit, where interactions between the solutes are negligible. However, there is a large variety of phenomena in biological cells and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Ander Movilla Miangolarra , Michele Castellana

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

Stochastic reaction networks with mass-action kinetics provide a useful framework for understanding processes -- biochemical and otherwise -- in homogeneous environments. However, cellular reactions are often compartmentalized, either at…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-01 David F. Anderson , Aidan S. Howells , Diego Rojas La Luz

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

Chemical Reaction Networks (CRNs) provide a useful abstraction of molecular interaction networks in which molecular structures as well as mass conservation principles are abstracted away to focus on the main dynamical properties of the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-31 Elisabeth Degrand , François Fages , Sylvain Soliman

Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) formally model chemistry in a well-mixed solution. CRNs are widely used to describe information processing occurring in natural cellular regulatory networks, and with upcoming advances in synthetic biology,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ho-Lin Chen , David Doty , David Soloveichik

Chemical reactor networks (CRNs) enable simulations of combustion reactors with detailed chemical kinetics and strongly simplified flow structure. In this paper, the implementation of a reactor component with less idealized flow structure,…

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