Chemical network algorithms for the risk assessment and management of chemical threats

Abstract

A network of chemical threats: Current regulatory protocols are insufficient to monitor and block many short-route syntheses of chemical weapons, including those that start from household products. Network searches combined with game-theory algorithms provide an effective means of identifying and eliminating chemical threats. (Picture: an algorithm-detected pathway that yields sarin (bright red node) in three steps from unregulated substances.) Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.