FIG. 6.
Systematic errors in the confinement calculation. On top, confinement free-energy differences determined by calculations using integration time steps of varying sizes (i.e., 2.0, 0.5, and 0.2 fs) for the β-hairpin states bhp1 and bhp2 are shown as a function of kf. The reduction of the time-step size results in non-negligible systematic differences. On bottom, ΔGAB (i.e., ΔGbhp2 − ΔGbhp1) is shown as a function of kf for the same confinement calculations. The free-energy change results are not affected by the systematic errors observed in the confinement simulations (on top).