(a) Gas-phase butane potential energy difference histograms between a high level
DFTB3 (PDFTB3 configurations) ensemble and a
MM[CGenFF] (PMM[CGenFF] configurations) low level
ensemble. (b) Gas-phase butane potential energy difference histograms between a
DFTB3 and a MM[FM] (PMM[FM] configurations) low
level ensemble. Histograms (PDFTB3,
PMM[CGenFF],
and PMM[FM]) were generated using 20,000
configurational snapshots from a 2 ns LD simulation. (c) Comparison of the
gas-phase butane dihedral potential of mean force (PMF) generated with FEP using
MM[CGenFF] as the low level of theory
(ΔAMM[CGenFF]→DFTB3) using data
from 1 ns of LD (10,000 points every 10°, red) to a reference DFTB3 PMF
generated with MBAR (10,000 points every 10°, blue). (d) Comparison of
the gas-phase butane dihedral potential of mean force (PMF) generated with FEP,
but using using MM[FM] as the low level of theory
(ΔAMM[FM]→DFTB3) using data from 1
ns of LD (10,000 points every 10°, red) compared to the reference DFTB3
PMF (blue).