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Proving the absence of unbounded polymers in rule-based models

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Rule-based languages, such as Kappa and BNGL, allow for the description of very combinatorial models of interactions between proteins. A huge (when not infinite) number of different kinds of bio-molecular compounds may arise due to proteins with multiple binding and phosphorylation sites. Knowing beforehand whether a model may involve an infinite number of different kinds of bio-molecular compounds is crucial for the modeller. On the first hand, having an infinite number of kinds of bio-molecular compounds is sometimes a hint for modelling flaws: forgetting to specify the conflicts among binding rules is a common mistake. On the second hand, it impacts the choice of the semantics for the models (among stochastic, differential, hybrid). In this paper, we introduce a data-structure to abstract the potential unbounded polymers that may be formed in a rule-based model. This data-structure is a graph, the nodes and the edges of which are labelled with patterns. By construction, every potentially unbounded polymer is associated to at least one cycle in that graph. This data-structure has two main advantages. Firstly, as opposed to site-graphs, one can reason about cycles without enumerating them (by the means of Tarjan's algorithm for detecting strongly connected components). Secondly, this data-structures may be combined easily with information coming from additional reachability analysis: the edges that are labelled with an overlap that is proved unreachable in the model may be safely discarded.
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hal-01967632 , version 1 (01-01-2019)

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Pierre Boutillier, Jérôme Feret, Aurélie Faure de Pebeyre. Proving the absence of unbounded polymers in rule-based models. Static Analysis and Systems Biology 2018, Aug 2018, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. ⟨hal-01967632⟩
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