Extremely precise free energy calculations of amino acid side chain analogs: Comparison of common molecular mechanics force fields for proteins

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Summary

This work calculates the free energy of hydration of 15 amino acid side chain analogs derived from recent versions of the OPLS-AA, CHARMM, and AMBER parameter sets in TIP3P water using thermodynamic integration and achieves a high degree of statistical precision.

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Published
2003-08-28
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Force field (fiction), Chemistry, Side chain, Molecule, Thermodynamic integration

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