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Erratum Review Topics in Current Chemistry

This ERRATUM accompanies the review paper by Christoph Dellago and Peter Bolhuis titled "Transition path sampling simulations of biological systems". This review appeared in the Topics in Current Chemistry volume 268 : Atomistic Approaches in Modern Biology: From Quantum Chemistry to Molecular Simulations published by Springer in January 2007

On page 311 of the review it is stated that the method used by Schlick and Radhankrishnan described in the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101, 5970 (2004) is in our view slightly biased. This is incorrect. The BOLAS method is described in more detail in a subsequent publication (R. Radhakrishnan and T. Schlick, J. Chem. Phys. 121, 2436 ( 2004) ) that escaped our attention and was not in the reference list. Here we would like to state that the BOLAS method is correct and can be used to study free energy barriers for complex (biological) processes.

In the same paragraph it is stated that the same authors used the QM/MM approach for the creation of long trajectories. This turned out not to have been the case. Instead a classical force field was used. See R. Radhakrishnan and T. Schlick, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101, 5970 (2004) and J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 13245-13252 (2005) for more details.