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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>

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