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This chapter provides an overview of the most common methods for including an explicit description of electronic polarization in molecular mechanics force fields: the induced point dipole, shell, and fluctuating charge models. The importance of including polarization effects in biomolecular simulations is discussed, and some of the most important achievements in the development of polarizable biomolecular force fields to date are highlighted.
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We would like to thank Jaakko Uusitalo and Praveen Nedumpully for their criticism and suggestions on the manuscript. Financial support from the Academy of Finland is gratefully acknowledged.
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Antila, H.S., Salonen, E. (2013). Polarizable Force Fields. In: Monticelli, L., Salonen, E. (eds) Biomolecular Simulations. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 924. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-017-5_9
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