Free-energy calculations - Theoretical Biophysics Group
Free-energy calculations - Theoretical Biophysics Group
Free-energy calculations - Theoretical Biophysics Group
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<strong>Free</strong>-<strong>energy</strong> perturbation <strong>calculations</strong> Measuring the error associated to an FEP calculation<br />
Measuring the systematic, finite-sampling error is less straightforward.<br />
To a large extent, the accuracy of a free-<strong>energy</strong> estimate is intimately related to the<br />
sampling of the associated probability distribution.<br />
Simulations of finite length are necessarily prone to sample preferentially states of<br />
<strong>energy</strong> close to the peak of the probability distributions, i.e. either 〈∆U〉0 or 〈∆U〉1,<br />
at the expense of their tails.<br />
Yet, insufficient sampling of the latter is tantamount to ignoring the most significant<br />
contributions to the free-<strong>energy</strong> difference.<br />
In a forward transformation, these contributions are found in the lower tail of P0(∆U).<br />
Symmetrically, they correspond to the higher tail of P1(∆U) in a backward transformation.<br />
Chris Chipot <strong>Free</strong>-<strong>energy</strong> <strong>calculations</strong>