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A Petri net approach to the study of persistence in chemical reaction networks
David Angeli1, Patrick De Leenheer, Eduardo D Sontag
1Dip di Sistemi e Informatica, University of Firenze, Italy. angeli@dsi.unifi.it
Abstract:
Persistence is the property, for differential equations in R(n), that solutions starting in the positive orthant do not approach the boundary of the orthant. For chemical reactions and population models, this translates into the non-extinction property: provided that every species is present at the start of the reaction, no species will tend to be eliminated in the course of the reaction. This paper provides checkable conditions for persistence of chemical species in reaction networks, using concepts and tools from Petri net theory, and verifies these conditions on various systems which arise in the modeling of cell signaling pathways.
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