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From: Autocatalytic sets in a partitioned biochemical network

Figure 1

A chemical reaction system. A simple CRS within the binary polymer model, where the food set consists of all monomers and dimers. The subset {r1,r2,r3,r5} is the maximal RAF subset (the maxRAF), while {r1,r2}, {r3} and {r1,r2,r3} are smaller RAFs within the maximal RAF known as subRAFs. {r1,r2} is an example of an irreducible RAF, since no proper subset of it is an RAF. A reaction such as {r3}, which consists of a single autocatalytic reaction with food molecules as reactants, is sometimes called a ‘trivial RAF’.

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