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