Quantitative assessment of force fields on both low-energy conformational basins and transition-state regions of the (ø-ψ) space

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 402-419

  Liu, Zhiwei ^a   Ensing, Bernd ^b   Moore, Preston B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84962359495     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct100395n     Document Type: Article

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