Response to “Comment on ‘Improving protein circular dichroism calculations in the far-ultraviolet through reparameterizing the amide chromophore’ ” [J. Chem. Phys. 111, 2844 (1999)]

In response to Woody and Sreerama’s Comment that they have realized significant improvements in calculations of the circular dichroism of proteins over those reported by Hirst previously, we report the simultaneous and independent achievement of comparably accurate calculations. Our calculations are based on parameters from ab initio wave functions, in contrast to the combination of experimental data and semiempirical wave functions used by Woody and Sreerama.