Prebiotic network evolution: six key parameters

Algorithms for detecting and analysing autocatalytic sets

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Heat flux across an open pore enables the continuous replication and selection of oligonucleotides towards increasing length

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Competition and Cooperation in Dynamic Replication Networks

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An investigation into irreducible autocatalytic sets and power law distributed catalysis

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The RNA World: molecular cooperation at the origins of life

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Conditions for Evolvability of Autocatalytic Sets: A Formal Example and Analysis

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Recycling of Informational Units Leads to Selection of Replicators in a Prebiotic Soup

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In-ice evolution of RNA polymerase ribozyme activity

(2013) James Attwater et al.   Nature Chemistry

Transition-state stabilization in Escherichia coli ribonuclease P RNA-mediated cleavage of model substrates

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Comprehensive experimental fitness landscape and evolutionary network for small RNA

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The Structure of Autocatalytic Sets: Evolvability, Enablement, and Emergence

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Excess Mutual Catalysis Is Required for Effective Evolvability

(2012) Omer Markovitch et al.   ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Turnstiles and bifurcators: The disequilibrium converting engines that put metabolism on the road

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Evolution before genes

(2012) Vera Vasas et al.   Biology Direct

Phase Networks of Cross-β Peptide Assemblies

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Spontaneous network formation among cooperative RNA replicators

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RNA catalysis through compartmentalization

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Prebiotically plausible mechanisms increase compositional diversity of nucleic acid sequences

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Multiple time-scales and the developmental dynamics of social systems

(2012) J. C. Flack   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The compositional and evolutionary logic of metabolism

(2012) Rogier Braakman et al.   PHYSICAL BIOLOGY

Universal Sequence Replication, Reversible Polymerization and Early Functional Biopolymers: A Model for the Initiation of Prebiotic Sequence Evolution

(2012) Sara Imari Walker et al.   PLoS One

A measure of individual role in collective dynamics

(2012) Konstantin Klemm et al.   Scientific Reports

Network evolution based on centrality

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Complexity through Recombination: From Chemistry to Biology

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Reproduction of a Protocell by Replication of a Minority Molecule in a Catalytic Reaction Network

(2010) Atsushi Kamimura et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Lack of evolvability in self-sustaining autocatalytic networks constraints metabolism-first scenarios for the origin of life

(2010) V. Vasas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A brief review of molecular information theory

(2010) Thomas D. Schneider   Nano Communication Networks

Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme

(2009) T. A. Lincoln et al.   SCIENCE

The Road to Non-Enzymatic Molecular Networks

(2008) Zehavit Dadon et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Prevolutionary dynamics and the origin of evolution

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