The emergence of interstellar molecular complexity explained by interacting networks.

ABSTRACT: Recent years have witnessed the detection of an increasing number of complex organic molecules in interstellar space, some of them being of prebiotic interest. Disentangling the origin of interstellar prebiotic chemistry and its connection to biochemistry and ultimately, to biology is an enormously challenging scientific goal where the application of complexity theory and network science has not been fully exploited. Encouraged by this idea, we present a theoretical and computational framework to model the evolution of simple networked structures toward complexity. In our environment, complex networks represent simplified chemical compounds and interact optimizing the dynamical importance of their nodes. We describe the emergence of a transition from simple networks toward complexity when

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Sanchez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9335321 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature