Biomass transfer and autocatalytic waiting time on growing reaction networks

Wei-Hsiang Lin^1*

¹Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

* Presenter:Wei-Hsiang Lin, email:whl243@gate.sinica.edu.tw

In this work, I analyzed biomass transfer process on scalable reaction networks [1]. The main idea is to characterize the autocatalysis pathways and consider the waiting times distribution for biomass to complete these pathways. By introducing the concept of catalytic kernel, the long-term growth kinetics of an arbitrary complex network can be summarized by a delay-differential equation. The catalytic kernel is a useful tool for comparing growing networks with different complexities or under different coarse-graining schemes. It helps us to develop theories that are not limited to specific network dimension or topology.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33093194/

Keywords: reaction network, growth , delay differential equation, waiting time, flux model