A stochastic model of catalytic reaction networks in protocells

Natural Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 367-377

  Serra, Roberto ^a,b   Filisetti, Alessandro ^b   Villani, Marco ^a,b   Graudenzi, Alex ^c   Damiani, Chiara ^c,d   Panini, Tommaso ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d SYSBIO Centre for Systems Biology   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autocatalytic sets of molecules; Catalytic reaction sets; Origin of life; Protocell; Stochastic simulations

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AUTOCATALYTIC; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PROTOCELLS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CATALYSIS; CATALYTIC REACTION NETWORK; CHEMICAL REACTION; GROWTH RATE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LIPID VESICLE; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTOCELL; REACTOR; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 84906783228     PISSN: 15677818     EISSN: 15729796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11047-014-9445-6     Document Type: Article

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