Computing the Parameter Values for the Emergence of Homochirality in Complex Networks.

ABSTRACT: The goal of our research is the development of algorithmic tools for the analysis of chemical reaction networks proposed as models of biological homochirality. We focus on two algorithmic problems: detecting whether or not a chemical mechanism admits mirror symmetry-breaking; and, given one of those networks as input, sampling the set of racemic steady states that can produce mirror symmetry-breaking. Algorithmic solutions to those two problems will allow us to compute the parameter values for the emergence of homochirality. We found a mathematical criterion for the occurrence of mirror symmetry-breaking. This criterion allows us to compute semialgebraic definitions of the sets of racemic steady states that produce homochirality. Although those semialgebraic definitions can be processed al

SUBMITTER: Montoya A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6789494 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature