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Alchemical Free Energy Methods1

Alchemical free energy calculations model the physically impossible but computationally realizable process of gradually mutating a subset of atoms of a system from one state to another, through a series of intermediate steps. Two alternative methods for alchemical calculation of free energies from molecular dynamics simulation are available in NAMD: Free energy perturbation (FEP) and thermodynamic integration (TI).



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