title: A simple model of the thermal prebiotic oligomerization of amino acids.
abstract: We construct a probabilistic model with the aid of the Markov chain formalism to describe and give a physico-chemical justification to an oligomerization process of a set of amino acids under certain prebiotic conditions. Such chemical process shows a remarkable bias in the polymer products that our model can explain. Some predictions and limitations are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Dirección General de Divulgación de la Ciencia, UNAM. Cd. Universitaria, A.p. 70-487, 04510, D.F., México, Mexico.
authors.forename: F G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Mosqueira
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramos-Bernal
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Negrón-Mendoza
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D001704:Biopolymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008390:Markov Chains; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011336:Probability
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D001704:Biopolymers