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Introduction
A variety of self-assembly and ordering processes are sustaining life. They are microscopic, mesoscopic, or macroscopic. In this book, we are concerned with the microscopic processes. We raise the following tw...
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Molecular Machines
The ATP hydrolysis cycle is utilized in such processes as the unidirectional movement of myosin along F-actin, assistance in protein folding performed by a chaperonin, transport of diverse substrates across th...
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Importance of Translational, Configurational Entropy of Water
We argue that a self-assembly process occurs primarily to increase the system entropy. The water entropy increases whereas the conformational entropy of biomolecules decreases, and the increase is larger than ...
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Concluding Remarks: Mechanism of Functional Expression Common in the Molecular Machines
Let us take protein folding as an example. The initial and final states of the folding process are visually different: Protein is in unfolded and folded states, respectively. Therefore, it can readily be under...
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Methods for Examining Phase Equilibria
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Free Energy Calculations: Approximate Methods for Biological Macromolecules
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Calculating Free Energy Differences Using Perturbation Theory
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Summary and Outlook
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Thermodynamic Integration Using Constrained and Unconstrained Dynamics
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Understanding and Improving Free Energy Calculations in Molecular Simulations: Error Analysis and Reduction Methods
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Specialized Methods for Improving Ergodic Sampling Using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations
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Quantum Contributions to Free Energy Changes in Fluids
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Introduction
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Applications of Free Energy Calculations to Chemistry and Biology
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Methods Based on Probability Distributions and Histograms
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Nonequilibrium Methods for Equilibrium Free Energy Calculations
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Transition Path Sampling and the Calculation of Free Energies
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Potential Distribution Methods and Free Energy Models of Molecular Solutions