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SUBMITTER: Zivieri R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5567375 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170822 1
In living systems, it is crucial to study the exchange of entropy that plays a fundamental role in the understanding of irreversible chemical reactions. However, there are not yet works able to describe in a systematic way the rate of entropy production associated to irreversible processes. Hence, here we develop a theoretical model to compute the rate of entropy in the minimum living system. In particular, we apply the model to the most interesting and relevant case of metabolic network, the gl ...[more]