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The previously reported [Volkov et al. (2004). Chem. Phys. Lett. 391, 170–175] exact potential and multipole moment (EP/MM) method for evaluation of intermolecular electrostatic interaction energies using the nuclei-centered pseudoatom representation of electron densities is significantly improved in terms of both speed and accuracy by replacing the numerical quadrature integration of the exact potential with a fully analytical technique. The resulting approach, incorporated in the XDPROP module of the software package XD, has been tested on several molecular systems ranging in size from water–water to dodecapeptide–dodecapeptide dimers using electron densities constructed via the University at Buffalo Aspherical Atom Databank. The improved hybrid method provides electrostatic interaction energies within the uncertainty of ≤0.2 kJ mol−1 for all benchmark systems. The running time for a dimer of a sizable, 225-atom dodecapeptide is under 4 s on a 2012 central processing unit (2.8 GHz AMD Opteron 6348) and under 3 s on a relatively modern processor (2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E3-1505M v5).
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