Hi - Dennis Stevenson wrote:
I would appreciate references to the use of category theory to describe molecular structure and/or changes in molecules.
I recommend the papers by Christoph Flamm and collaborators: https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=%22Flamm%2C+Christoph%22 I heard Flamm and Merkle talk at "Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Information Processing in Chemical Networks" in Luxembourg last year, and I wrote:
Merkle is speaking. This is the first talk I’ve seen where someone argues strongly for the usefulness of category theory, then explains the definition of pushouts, and then illustrates it with examples from organic chemistry! Good thing I’d explained the definition of ‘category’ earlier in the day! Double-pushout graph rewriting applied to chemistry, and implemented in software that creates pictures of molecules using TikZ.
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