thanks for the helps to both of you (ross and
carlos)... :p
--- Carlos Simmerling
<carlos.simmerling.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> I would also add my opinion that unless you have a
> very good reason,
> you should not be using parm96. It has some serious
> problems
> that have been documented in the literature.
>
> Ross Walker wrote:
>
> >Dear Abd
> >
> >
> >
> >>using the ff03, it perfectly works.
> >>
> >>Below are the steps that i did in the xleap:-
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>source leaprc.ff96
> >>>
> >>>
> >>For atom: .R<Zn 389>.A<ZN1 1> Could not find type:
> Zn
> >>For atom: .R<C0 390>.A<CA1 1> Could not find type:
> C0
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Check the force field data files in
> $AMBERHOME/dat/leap/parm
> >
> >In there you will find parm96.dat which defines all
> of the atom types in the
> >FF96 force field. If you check parm99.dat and
> frcmod.FF03 you will see the
> >parameters for the FF03 force field. Note, in the
> parm96.dat file there is
> >no Zn atom type defined and so you need to provide
> this. Calcium is defined
> >as C0 but only it's mass is provided, there are no
> van der Waals parameters
> >and so this atom type is not recognised either.
> >
> >Compare this to the parm99.dat file where mass and
> VDW parameters are
> >provided for both Zn and C0. This is why FF03
> (which is based on parm99.dat)
> >works but FF96 does not. The solution, assuming
> that you want to model the
> >Ca and Zn as simply ions is to use the parameters
> from the FF03 force field.
> >Although you will need to make this clear in any
> write-up of your work so
> >that other researchers are aware of exactly which
> parameters you used and
> >can reproduce things.
> >
> >To do this you need to create an frcmod file with
> the parameters from the
> >FF03 force field and then load this frcmod file
> into Leap.
> >
> >The following tutorial has an example frcmod file
> in it.
>
>http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/tutorials/amber_workshop/Tutorial_four/index.htm
> >
> >All the best
> >Ross
> >
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