Geometry and symmetry in biochemical reaction systems
Geometry and symmetry in biochemical reaction systems
Complex systems of intracellular biochemical reactions have a central role in regulating cell identities and functions. Biochemical reaction systems are typically studied using the language and tools of graph theory. However, graph representations only describe pairwise interactions between molecular species, and so are not well suited to modelling complex sets of reactions that may involve numerous reactants and/or products. Here we make use of a recently-developed hypergraph theory of chemical reactions that naturally allows for higher-order interactions to explore the geometry and quantify functional redundancy in biochemical reactions systems. Our results constitute a general theory of automorphisms for oriented hypergraphs and describe the effect of automorphism group structure on hypergraph Laplacian spectra.
Mulas, Raffaella
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Sánchez-García, Rubén J.
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Macarthur, Benjamin
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Mulas, Raffaella
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Sánchez-García, Rubén J.
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Macarthur, Benjamin
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Mulas, Raffaella, Sánchez-García, Rubén J. and Macarthur, Benjamin
(2020)
Geometry and symmetry in biochemical reaction systems.
arXiv.
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Abstract
Complex systems of intracellular biochemical reactions have a central role in regulating cell identities and functions. Biochemical reaction systems are typically studied using the language and tools of graph theory. However, graph representations only describe pairwise interactions between molecular species, and so are not well suited to modelling complex sets of reactions that may involve numerous reactants and/or products. Here we make use of a recently-developed hypergraph theory of chemical reactions that naturally allows for higher-order interactions to explore the geometry and quantify functional redundancy in biochemical reactions systems. Our results constitute a general theory of automorphisms for oriented hypergraphs and describe the effect of automorphism group structure on hypergraph Laplacian spectra.
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Submitted date: 2 October 2020
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/449992
ISSN: 2331-8422
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