Reparation as an emergent process in metabolic networks

Andrés Véjar (1) , Iván Gómez-Castaño (2)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 GEAM - Grupo de Estudio en Análisis y Modelamiento

In biology, one of the most challenging problems is how the emergence of self-organization and operational closure are maintained through time. In this topic, phenomena like regulation, replication and reparation have to be defined in order to get a concept of self-organization. Up to now, reparation in metabolic networks has a non trivial description and many efforts have been made to investigate related concepts as closure existence or system dynamics. We propose a model where the coexistence of intermittent coupled dynamical systems allows the emergence of global reparation as a property of the whole network and, also, it is needed to maintain the normal function of the individuality in time.

Mots clés: self-repair; catalysis; self-organization; (M; R)-systems

Domaines: Adaptation et Systèmes auto-organisés [nlin.AO]; Bio-Informatique, Biologie Systémique [q-bio.QM]; Bio-informatique [q-bio.QM]

Andrés Véjar, Iván Gómez-Castaño. Reparation as an emergent process in metabolic networks. European Conference on Complex Systems, ECCS09. Satellite Meeting EmergeNET3: Emergence and Networks, Sep 2009, Warwick, United Kingdom. pp.CDROM. ⟨hal-00421581⟩