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Peter A. Kollman was affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their academic career was associated with this institution, which is known for its research contributions in health sciences and related fields.

While detailed information regarding Kollman's recent papers, frequent co-authors, and publication venues is not available, this absence suggests a limited public record of their published research outputs in accessible databases.

No specific book publications or awards were recorded for Kollman, and there is no available data on their main fields, subfields, or focused research topics. As such, further details about their academic specializations or research themes cannot be provided.

Kollman was recognized as deceased at the time of this profile creation, indicating the entirety of their professional work should be considered in past tense.

Best Publications

  • Development and testing of a general amber force field.

    Junmei Wang;Romain M. Wolf;James W. Caldwell;Peter A. Kollman

  • A Second Generation Force Field for the Simulation of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Organic Molecules

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Christopher I. Bayly;Ian R. Gould;Ian R. Gould

  • SETTLE: an analytical version of the SHAKE and RATTLE algorithm for rigid water models

    Shuichi Miyamoto;Peter A. Kollman

  • A well-behaved electrostatic potential based method using charge restraints for deriving atomic charges: the RESP model

    Christopher I. Bayly;Piotr Cieplak;Wendy Cornell;Peter A. Kollman

  • The weighted histogram analysis method for free-energy calculations on biomolecules. I: The method

    Shankar Kumar;Djamal Bouzida;Robert H. Swendsen;Peter A. Kollman

  • A NEW FORCE FIELD FOR MOLECULAR MECHANICAL SIMULATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS

    S J Weiner;P A Kollman;D A Case;U C Singh

  • How Well Does a Restrained Electrostatic Potential (RESP) Model Perform in Calculating Conformational Energies of Organic and Biological Molecules

    Junmei Wang;Piotr Cieplak;Piotr Cieplak;Peter A. Kollman

  • Automatic atom type and bond type perception in molecular mechanical calculations.

    Junmei Wang;Wei Wang;Peter A. Kollman;David A. Case

  • Calculating Structures and Free Energies of Complex Molecules: Combining Molecular Mechanics and Continuum Models

    Peter A. Kollman;Irina Massova;Carolina Reyes;Bernd Kuhn

  • A point-charge force field for molecular mechanics simulations of proteins based on condensed-phase quantum mechanical calculations.

    Yong Duan;Chun Wu;Shibasish Chowdhury;Mathew C. Lee

  • An approach to computing electrostatic charges for molecules

    U. Chandra Singh;Peter A. Kollman

  • An all atom force field for simulations of proteins and nucleic acids.

    Scott J. Weiner;Peter A. Kollman;Dzung T. Nguyen;David A. Case

  • Atomic charges derived from semiempirical methods

    B. H. Besler;K. M. Merz;P. A. Kollman

  • AMBER, a package of computer programs for applying molecular mechanics, normal mode analysis, molecular dynamics and free energy calculations to simulate the structural and energetic properties of molecules

    David A. Pearlman;David A. Case;James W. Caldwell;Wilson S. Ross

  • FREE ENERGY CALCULATIONS : APPLICATIONS TO CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA

    Peter. Kollman

  • Continuum Solvent Studies of the Stability of DNA, RNA, and Phosphoramidate−DNA Helices

    Jayashree Srinivasan;Thomas E. Cheatham;Piotr Cieplak;Peter A. Kollman

  • Pathways to a Protein Folding Intermediate Observed in a 1-Microsecond Simulation in Aqueous Solution

    Yong Duan;Peter A. Kollman

  • AMBER: Assisted model building with energy refinement. A general program for modeling molecules and their interactions

    Paul K. Weiner;Peter A. Kollman

  • Application of RESP charges to calculate conformational energies, hydrogen bond energies, and free energies of solvation

    Wendy D. Cornell;Piotr Cieplak;Christopher I. Bayly;Peter A. Kollman

  • A combined ab initio quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical method for carrying out simulations on complex molecular systems: Applications to the CH3Cl + Cl− exchange reaction and gas phase protonation of polyethers

    U. Chandra Singh;Peter A. Kollman

  • A NEW FORCE FIELD FOR MOLECULAR MECHANICAL SIMULATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS

    S. J. Weiner;P. A. Kollman;D. A. Case;U. C. Singh

Frequent Co-Authors

Piotr Cieplak
Piotr Cieplak Discovery Institute
Irwin D. Kuntz
Irwin D. Kuntz University of California, San Francisco
Thomas E. Cheatham
Thomas E. Cheatham University of Utah
David A. Case
David A. Case Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David M. Ferguson
David M. Ferguson University of Minnesota
Junmei Wang
Junmei Wang University of Pittsburgh
Leland C. Allen
Leland C. Allen Princeton University
Wei Wang
Wei Wang University of California, San Diego
George L. Kenyon
George L. Kenyon University of California, San Francisco
Roberto Car
Roberto Car Princeton University

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