of magnitude smaller than those of the experiments
(\cref{sec:single-molecule}), and the parameters used in the
calculations are often neither experimentally controllable nor
-measurable (TODO: example parameters of each type). As a result, a
-Monte Carlo simulation approach based on a simple two-state kinetic
-model for the protein is usually used to analyze data from mechanical
-unfolding experiments. A comparison of the force curves measured
-experimentally and those generated from simulations can yield the
-unfolding rate constant of the protein in the absence of force as well
-as the distance from the native state to the transition state along
-the pulling direction. The Monte Carlo simulation method has been
-used since the first report of mechanical unfolding experiments using
-the AFM%
+measurable.
+% (TODO: example parameters of each type).
+As a result, a Monte Carlo simulation approach based on a simple
+two-state kinetic model for the protein is usually used to analyze
+data from mechanical unfolding experiments. A comparison of the force
+curves measured experimentally and those generated from simulations
+can yield the unfolding rate constant of the protein in the absence of
+force as well as the distance from the native state to the transition
+state along the pulling direction. The Monte Carlo simulation method
+has been used since the first report of mechanical unfolding
+experiments using the AFM%
\citep{rief97b,rief97a,rief98,carrion-vazquez99b,best02,zinober02,jollymore09},
but these previous implementations are neither fully described nor
publicly available.