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The free energy difference estimate with NBB-direct is dependent on the thermodynamic path connecting the unsampled states. Higher order mixing rules for the unsampled QM/MM intermediate states lead to statistically significant biases in the estimate. The dashed line indicates the free energy estimate using the full MBAR method.
