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This research aims to develop a computational method for identifying and ranking synthesis pathways in reaction networks based on energy barriers.

Finding Pathways in Reaction Networks Guided by Energy Barriers Using Integer Linear Programing

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Computational approach identifies and ranks synthesis pathways in reaction networks, suggesting improvements in pathway exploration.

This research aims to develop a computational method for identifying and ranking synthesis pathways in reaction networks based on energy barriers.
Applied integer linear programming to search for pathways in chemical reaction networks.
Modeled reaction networks as directed hypergraphs to facilitate analysis.
Developed an automated pipeline to estimate energy barriers for individual reactions.
Demonstrated methodology using a reaction network of 2-hydroxyethanenitrile, water, and ammonia.
Identified multiple pathways to glycine and 2-hydroxyethanoic acid from given precursors.
Ranked pathways according to a function maximizing the likelihood based on energy barriers.
Showed that the methodology is adaptable for networks lacking kinetic annotation.

Pal et al. (2026) studied this question.

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