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ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Automated Exploration of Prebiotic Chemical Reaction Space: Progress and Perspectives.

Siddhant Sharma, Aayush Arya, Romulo Cruz, Henderson James Cleaves Ii

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Review in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Messy Chemistry and the Emergence of Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Siddhant SharmaBlue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA 98154, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1768-1802
Aayush AryaBlue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA 98154, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6782-407X
Romulo CruzBlue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA 98154, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5942-9918
Henderson James Cleaves IiBlue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA 98154, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4101-0654

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prebiotic chemistry often involves the study of complex systems of chemical reactions that form large networks with a large number of diverse species. Such complex systems may have given rise to emergent phenomena that ultimately led to the origin of life on Earth. The environmental conditions and processes involved in this emergence may not be fully recapitulable, making it difficult for experimentalists to study prebiotic systems in laboratory simulations. Computational chemistry offers efficient ways to study such chemical systems and identify the ones most likely to display complex properties associated with life. Here, we review tools and techniques for modelling prebiotic chemical reaction networks and outline possible ways to identify self-replicating features that are central to many origin-of-life models.

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automated chemical space searcheschemical reaction networkscomputational modellingnetwork autocatalysisprebiotic chemistryself-replicating structures

Identifiers

PMID34833016
PMCPMC8624352

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