Biophysical Chemistry
Umbrella sampling is a computational technique used to calculate free energy profiles by enhancing the sampling of configurations in specific regions of a system's potential energy landscape. This method allows researchers to effectively explore rare events and transition states by applying biasing potentials, which help to overcome energy barriers that would otherwise limit sampling in molecular simulations. By collecting data over various windows of interest, it enables accurate free energy calculations that are essential for understanding molecular behavior.
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