Chemists usually consider
two or three chemicals at a time in a reaction. But when there are a large
number of reagents and products, and they interact by
catalysis and inhibition, producing feed forward and
feedback cycles, the story becomes too
complex for most chemists.
Without knowing the kinetics
of the individual component reactions, can we write a master
equation of such complex chemical systems?
Two chemical engineers have
proposed such a master equation in a recent issue of PNAS.
Besides chemists, biologists
too would be very happy to have such a tool
that can describe the
complex biochemical networks in living cells.
PNAS vol. 110, no. 35, 14261–14265 August 27, 2013
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