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It should have become evident by now that an accurate treatment of the modeling of protein structures is not feasible in practice, even though the necessary formulations are available. There is, therefore, no recourse but to introduce approximations, some of which, in fact, may seem very drastic. Judgment, however, should be passed only after an evaluation of the correctness of the results that the corresponding treatments may yield.
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Fraga, S., Parker, J.M.R., Pocock, J.M. (1995). Molecular Mechanics: The Potential Energy Function. In: Computer Simulations of Protein Structures and Interactions. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51499-9_5
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