Figure 1

An example CRS and its (sub)RAFs. (a) An instance of the binary polymer model (catalyzed reactions only). Black dots (on the outside, around a circle) indicate molecule types (not labeled), and white boxes (inside the circle) indicate reactions. Solid black arrows indicate molecules going into and coming out of reactions, and dashed grey arrows indicate catalysis. (b) The maxRAF as found by applying the RAF algorithm to the CRS in (a). This maxRAF contains an irreducible RAF of two reactions (indicated by the bold arrows). The food set consists of the bit strings of length one and two.