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Figure 1: The total potential energy of any molecule is the sum of simple allowing for bond stretching, bond angle bending, bond twisting, van der Waals interactions and electrostatics.

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Levitt, M. The birth of computational structural biology. Nat Struct Mol Biol 8, 392–393 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/87545

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