International Journal of Bioinformatics and Biological Science
Open Access
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 1

Graph transforms for modeling chemical reaction pathways

  • Author:
  • V. Yegnarayanan1, Gulshan Wadhwa2,
  • Total Page Count: 20
  • Page Number: 109 to 128

1Senior Member IEEE & Senior Professor, Department of Mathematics, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai-600 066

2Joint Director, Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi-110 003.

*Corresponding Author: Gulshan Wadhwa, Email: gulshan.dbt@nic.in

Online published on 25 April, 2013.

Abstract

In this paper we discuss some general graph-theoretic formalism analogous to the chemical concepts of reactions and kits of reaction rules. We believe that this mathematical formalism may lead to improvements in Computer-assisted Organic Synthesis. Further we indicate that hypergraphs and its structure can be used to model the chemical reaction network.

Keywords

Graphs, Chemical Reaction Network, Metadigraphs, Hypergraphs, Stochastic Graph Transformation