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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 127, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2767621
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C001486/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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While a variety of double-ended transition state search methods have been developed, their relative performance in characterizing complex multistep pathways between structurally disparate molecular conformations remains unclear. Three such methods (doubly-nudged elastic band, a string method, and a growing string method) are compared for a series of benchmarks ranging from permutational isomerizations of the seven-atom Lennard-Jones cluster (LJ(7)) to highly cooperative LJ(38) and LJ(75) rearrangements, and the folding pathways of two peptides. A database of short paths between LJ(13) local minima is used to explore the effects of parameters and suggest reasonable default values. Each double-ended method was employed within the framework of a missing connection network flow algorithm to construct more complicated multistep pathways. We find that in our implementation none of the three methods definitively outperforms the others, and that their relative effectiveness is strongly system and parameter dependent.
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