Analysis Of Degenerate Chemical Reaction Networks

Positivity of states and parameters in dynamic models for chemical reaction networks are exploited by Chemical Reaction Network Theory (CRNT) to predict the potential for multistationarity of 'regular' networks without knowledge of parameter values. Especially for biochemical systems, however, CRNT's large application potential cannot be realized because most realistic networks are degenerate in the sense of CRNT. Here, we show how degenerate networks can be regularized such that the theorems and algorithms of CRNT apply. We employ the method in l case study for a bacterial reaction network of moderate size.