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. 2018 Feb 15;13(2):e0192871. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192871

Fig 1. Schematics of GARD’s dynamics.

Fig 1

Different molecules types (represented by different colored circles) aggregate to form assemblies. Aggregation is biased by a matrix of chemical rates (β, Eq 1)). Once an assembly reaches a size-threshold (Nmax) it splits, and the progeny then continues the growth-split cycles (generations). A composome is an assembly that has high average compositional similarity (see section: The GARD model) to its parent and to one of its children.