Compiling Elementary Mathematical Functions into Finite Chemical Reaction Networks via a Polynomialization Algorithm for ODEs

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Abstract

The Turing completeness result for continuous chemical reaction networks (CRN) shows that any computable function over the real numbers can be computed by a CRN over a finite set of formal molecular species using at most bimolecular reactions with mass action law kinetics. The proof uses a previous result of Turing completeness for functions defined by polynomial ordinary differential equations (PODE), the dual-rail encoding of real variables by the difference of concentration between two molecular species, and a back-end quadratization transformation to restrict to elementary reactions with at most two reactants. In this paper, we present a polynomialization algorithm of quadratic time complexity to transform a system of elementary differential equations in PODE. This algorithm is used as a front-end transformation to compile any elementary mathematical function, either of time or of some input species, into a finite CRN. We illustrate the performance of our compiler on a benchmark of elementary functions relevant to CRN design problems in synthetic biology specified by mathematical functions. In particular, the abstract CRN obtained by compilation of the Hill function of order 5 is compared to the natural CRN structure of MAPK signalling networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Methods in Systems Biology - 19th International Conference, CMSB 2021, Proceedings
EditorsEugenio Cinquemani, Loïc Paulevé
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages74-90
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030856328
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 22 Sept 202124 Sept 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12881 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period22/09/2124/09/21

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