Chiral polymerisation and the RNA world

The purpose of this paper is to review two mathematical models: one for the formation of homochiral polymers from an originally chirally symmetric system; and the other, to show how, in an RNA-world scenario, RNA can simultaneously act both as information storage and a catalyst for its own productio...

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Main Authors: Wattis, Jonathan A.D., Coveney, Peter V.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2005
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/928/