PNNL

Abstract

The need for inclusion higher-order correlation effects for adequate description of the excitation energies of the DNA bases became clear in the last few years. In particular, we demonstrated that there is a sizable effect of triply excited configurations estimated in a non-iterative manner on the coupled-cluster excitation energies of the cytosine molecule in DNA environment. In this paper we discuss the accuracies of the non-iterative methods for biologically relevant systems in realistic environment in comparison with interative formulations that explicitly include the effect of triply excited clusters.