Biomass transfer and autocatalytic waiting time on growing reaction networks

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 autocatalytic waiting time (AWT) kernel, the long-term growth kinetics of an arbitrary complex network can be summarized by a delay-differential equation. The AWT 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/