The acceptance ratio method is adapted for the determination of free energy of molecular systems with several local minima in the potential energy function. The procedure uses configurations from Monte Carlo simulations. A special reference system, of which the free energy can be computed analytically, is constructed in the process. Two variants of the technique are tested on a simple model of a macromolecule. In this simple test the method turned out to be more efficient than thermodynamic integration.

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