A network of small cream discs and squares joined by faint solid and dashed lines: the maximal reflexively autocatalytic, food-generated set of a random binary polymer chemistry.

Autocatalytic set

Kauffman, 1986; Hordijk & Steel, 2004. Binary polymers to length 6, f = 1.4.

The largest reflexively autocatalytic and food-generated (RAF) set inside a random polymer chemistry: every reaction is catalysed by a molecule the set itself produces, and every molecule is reachable from the food set. Rings are food, discs are molecules sized by length, squares are reactions, dashed lines are catalysis.

Field
Reaction networks
Nature
Exact computation of a published object; not a Lixiviant result.
Generator
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