Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4500910 | Mathematical Biosciences | 2007 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
Persistence is the property, for differential equations in RnRn, that solutions starting in the positive orthant do not approach the boundary of the orthant. For chemical reactions and population models, this translates into the non-extinction property: provided that every species is present at the start of the reaction, no species will tend to be eliminated in the course of the reaction. This paper provides checkable conditions for persistence of chemical species in reaction networks, using concepts and tools from Petri net theory, and verifies these conditions on various systems which arise in the modeling of cell signaling pathways.
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Authors
David Angeli, Patrick De Leenheer, Eduardo D. Sontag,