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Understanding and Improving Free Energy Calculations in Molecular Simulations: Error Analysis and Reduction Methods

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Free Energy Calculations

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  1. Departments of Physiology and of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, 21205, Baltimore, Maryland

    Nandou Lu

  2. Departments of Physiology and of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, 21205, Baltimore, Maryland

    Thomas B. Woolf

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    Christophe Chipot

  2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, CA 94143, San Francisco, USA

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Lu, N., Woolf, T.B. (2007). Understanding and Improving Free Energy Calculations in Molecular Simulations: Error Analysis and Reduction Methods. In: Chipot, C., Pohorille, A. (eds) Free Energy Calculations. Springer Series in CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38448-9_6

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