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Free Energy Calculations

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  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, Box 2240, 94143, San Francisco, California

    M. Scott Shell

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 8544, Princeton, New Jersey

    Athanassios Panagiotopoulos

  3. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, CA 94143, San Francisco, USA

    Andrew Pohorille

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    Christophe Chipot

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    Andrew Pohorille

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Shell, M.S., Panagiotopoulos, A., Pohorille, A. (2007). Methods Based on Probability Distributions and Histograms. In: Chipot, C., Pohorille, A. (eds) Free Energy Calculations. Springer Series in CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38448-9_3

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