Zachary R. Adam

ChemOrigins: A community curated database for origins of life chemistry

ChemOrigins is a community-curated database that organizes experimentally supported prebiotic reactions into a knowledge graph for research and education.

Agnostic Tools for Life Detection: A Multiscale Approach to Biological and Chemical Reaction Networks

The paper evaluates macroscale and microscale metrics to distinguish biotic from abiotic chemical reaction networks and proposes an agnostic toolset for life detection.

Did Iron Suppress Eukaryote Emergence and Early Radiation?

This study investigates how iron availability influenced early eukaryotic evolution by linking geochemical records with microbial biochemistry, suggesting iron constraints rather than oxygen availability drove eukaryogenesis.

The modular biochemical reaction network structure of cellular translation

The paper constructs a multilayer graph of biochemical reactions for translation, polymer biosynthesis, and metabolism in E. coli, revealing distinct modular structures and multimodal distributions.