On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Catein Catherine wrote:
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> I also noticed that some publication rescale the WHAM result to make the
> level off (in this case is 8 kcal/mol) to zero, while the minimum was set
> as a negative values (in this case is -8 kcal/mol). Is it necessary to be
> done? Why?
PMF's are only relative energies, so adding a constant has no physical effect,
and was probably done for convenience (setting the dissociated state
arbitrarily to zero).
...dac
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