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20192026
most citedGood and bad children in metabolic networks

8 citations · 9 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

On mechanistically accessible copolymer sequences

Richard Golnik, Nicola Vassena, Alex Blokhuis

Structural observations in polymer chemistry are often rationalized through underlying mechanistic insights. The study of families of mechanisms - and the phenomenology and lawlike…

q-bio.MN2026

Minimality in Reflexive and Stoichiometric Autocatalysis

Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Wim Hordijk +2

Autocatalysis, the ability of a chemical subsystem to sustain its own constituents when supplied with sufficient food molecules, has been closely related to the origin of life on E…

q-bio.MN2026

Bridging two theoretical frameworks of autocatalysis: RAF sets and stoichiometric autocatalysis

Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Wim Hordijk +2

Autocatalysis lies at the heart of many (bio)chemical processes and is key to processes leading up to the origin of life. Two seemingly very different formalisms have emerged that…

math.DS2026

Mathematical modeling and analysis of the Notch-Delta pathway

Angela Stevens, Nicola Vassena

In this paper mathematical models for the evolutionary conserved Notch-Delta pathway are developed and analyzed in order to better understand how two neighboring biological cells c…

math.CO2026★ 1 cited

Autocatalytic Cores in Reaction Networks with Explicit Catalysis

Richard Golnik, Thomas Gatter, Peter F. Stadler +1

Autocatalytic cores are minimal units in reaction networks (RNs) responsible for the emergence of autocatalysis. In the absence of explicit catalysis, i.e., when an entity appears…

math.DS2024

Finding bifurcations in mathematical epidemiology via reaction network methods

Nicola Vassena, Florin Avram, Rim Adenane

Mathematical Epidemiology (ME) shares with Chemical Reaction Network Theory (CRNT) the basic mathematical structure of its dynamical systems. Despite this central similarity, metho…

math.DS2019★ 8 cited

Good and bad children in metabolic networks

Nicola Vassena

Equilibrium bifurcations arise from sign changes of Jacobian determinants, as parameters are varied. Therefore we address the Jacobian determinant for metabolic networks with gener…