Friday, April 20, 2012

1204.4341 (Tommaso Biancalani et al.)

Noise-induced metastability in biochemical networks    [PDF]

Tommaso Biancalani, Tim Rogers, Alan J. McKane
Intra-cellular biochemical reactions exhibit a rich dynamical phenomenology which cannot be explained within the framework of mean-field rate equations and additive noise. Here, we show that the presence of metastable states and radically different timescales are general features of a broad class of autocatalyic reaction networks, and moreover, that this fact may be exploited to gain analytical results. The latter point is demonstrated by a treatment of the paradigmatic Togashi-Kaneko reaction, which has resisted theoretical analysis for the last decade.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4341

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