Autocatalytic sets in a partitioned biochemical network

Journal of Systems Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Joshua I ^a   Steel, Mike ^a   Hordijk, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b SmartAnalytiXcom   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Origin of life; Peptide RNA world

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988494791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17592208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1759-2208-5-2     Document Type: Article

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