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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Chem. 2018 Dec 15;39(32):2624–2646. doi: 10.1002/jcc.25709

Table 4.

Heats of sublimation (ΔHsub, kcal mol−1). Results are the average of ten independent simulations. Experimental reference values are taken from Chickos and Acree.[100]

Base Experiment Temp (K) Drude-2013* % Diff Drude-2017 % Diff
Ura 30.35 439 29.02 −1.3 30.31 −0.1
31.30 298 30.01 −4.1 31.46 0.5
Me-Ura 26.89 398 27.94 3.9 29.55 9.9
Avg. Diff. −0.52 −0.5% 0.93 3.4%
AUE 1.22 0.95
RMSD 1.23 1.54
*

Some values obtained using the Drude-2013 differ from those reported by Baker et al.[66] due to refinement, especially of internal terms, during the course of the development of the Drude-2013 DNA force field.[39,40]