TBI-Preprint 03-006
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Titel:
Generic Properties of Chemical Networks:
Artificial Chemistry Based on Graph Rewriting
Author(s):
Gil Benkü,
Christoph Flamm,
Peter F. Stadler
submitted to:
LNCS, (2003)
Abstract:
We use a Toy Model of chemistry that
represents molecules in terms of usual structural formulae to generate
large chemical reaction networks. An extremely simplified quantum
mechanical energy calculation and a straightforward implementation of
reactions as graph rewritings ensure both transparency and closeness
to chemical reality, both conditions that are necessary for the
analysis of generic properties of large reaction networks. We show
that some chemical networks graphs, e.g., repetitive Diels-Alder
reactions, have the small-world property and exhibit a scale-free
degree distribution. On the other hand, the Formose reaction does not
fit well to this paradigm.
Keywords:
Artificial Chemistry,
Chemical Reaction Networks,
Small World Property
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