Understanding and improving free energy calculations in molecular simulations: Error analysis and reduction methods

Springer Series in Chemical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue , 2007, Pages 199-247

  Lu, Nandou ^a   Woolf, Thomas B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 62849103081     PISSN: 01726218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-38448-9_6     Document Type: Review

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