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A Toy Model of Chemical Reaction Networks - TBI - Universität Wien

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10 CHAPTER 2. ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRIES<br />

Educts Intermediates Products<br />

Figure 2.2: The Atomoid model. Molecules are built from “atoms” connected<br />

by bond handles differingin energy level and energy structure.<br />

Initiation<br />

−→<br />

Elongation<br />

−→<br />

Termination<br />

−→<br />

Figure 2.3: Simulation steps <strong>of</strong> RNA growth by the rewritable graph chemistry<br />

<strong>of</strong> [78].<br />

the system from the start. These simple artificial atomic reaction rules lead<br />

to dissipative structures. The model enables one to follow on an atomic level<br />

how those dissipative structures lead to the emergence <strong>of</strong> self-reproductive<br />

hypercycles. Fig. 2.2 shows a simple example network.<br />

The rewritable graph chemistry <strong>of</strong> [78], fig. 2.3, is designed to be<br />

complementary to the string-oriented analysis <strong>of</strong> nucleic acid polymers. The<br />

string editing is replaced by graph rewriting rules. They are encoded by<br />

subgraph graph replacements on labeled graphs called variable graphs, rep-

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