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Hydration free energy calculations by the acceptance ratio method
Author(s) -
Saito Minoru,
Nakamura Haruki
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.540110109
Subject(s) - free energy perturbation , perturbation (astronomy) , ion , energy method , energy (signal processing) , thermodynamics , chemistry , statistical physics , statistics , mathematics , physics , computational chemistry , molecular dynamics , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics
The hydration energy difference between the alanine and glycine zwitter ions was calculated by both the free energy perturbation method and the acceptance ratio method. The calculations were carried out by using different increments of the mutation parameter λ, δλ = − 0.05, −0.10, and −0.20. The free energy difference calculated by the acceptance ratio method was found to be approximately the same as an average of the two free energy differences in the forward and the backward directions calculated by the perturbation method. The results by the perturbation method were significantly affected by large δλ as compared with that by the acceptance ratio method. The statistical error caused by decreasing the simulation time for sampling equilibrium configurations is discussed.