An overview of electrostatic free energy computations for solutions and proteins

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2690-2709

  Lin, Yen Lin ^a   Aleksandrov, Alexey ^b   Simonson, Thomas ^b   Roux, Benoît ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOCHIMIE   (France)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 84904131114     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500195p     Document Type: Article

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