Simulating the origins of life: The dual role of RNA replicases as an obstacle to evolution

• Natalia Szostak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Szostak, Szymon Wasik

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Poznan, Poland

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• Jaroslaw Synak,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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• Marcin Borowski,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization

  Affiliations Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Poznan, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2116-8761

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• Szymon Wasik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Natalia Szostak, Szymon Wasik

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: szymon.wasik@cs.put.poznan.pl

  Affiliations Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Poznan, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2753-2862

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• Jacek Blazewicz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland, European Centre for Bioinformatics and Genomics, Poznan, Poland

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