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1. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

   Detecting autocatalytic, self-sustaining sets in chemical reaction systems

   Hordijk and Steel · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2003

   The paper presents an algorithm for finding autocatalytic, food-sustained subsystems in chemical reaction systems, then uses it to study random catalytic networks, including Kauffman's model.

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   1. Supported · 71%The authors describe a polynomial-time algorithm that detects whether a reaction system contains a subsystem that is both autocatalytic and sustained by a given food set.“In this paper we first describe a polynomial-time algorithm that determines whether any given set of molecules, reactions and catalysations contains a subsystem that is both autocatalytic and able to be sustained from a given subset of the molecules. We also describe some combinatorial properties o…”