Quoting mernst.tricity.wsu.edu:
> I do not know what version of NWChem you are using. NWChem at least
> version 4.5-4.7 does
> not properly implement RESP, though it can give deceptively
> good-looking results on some
> molecules. I will guess you want RESP, not plain ESP, as that's how
> AMBER charges were
> assigned. NWChem is not suitable for RESP. I know that NWChem 5.0
> has significantly
> changed its RESP charge calculations, but they too were flawed
> (though in a different
> way) when I used it in beta. If you want to verify that your
> software and methods are
> reasonable, obtain the original RESP papers and confirm that you can
> reproduce results
> for simple cases like butane and n-methylacetamide. NWChem seemed to
> give especially
> unreasonable results on butane when I was doing my own verifications.
Here, is it not possible to ask to NWChem to only (i) optimize a
structure (ii) compute the MEP and NOT derive the charges; letting the
RESP program doing the fitting step to generate RESP or ESP charge
values ?
Did you try to compare the MEP generated by Gaussian, and that
generated by NWChem ? Are they identical ? Thanks, Francois
So far, R.E.D. interfaces GAMESS-US compiled from the sources and
Gaussian (94, 98 & 03). R.E.D.-III now interfaces also PC-GAMESS.
We could also imagine to load optimization output(s) from NWChem or
Q-Chem (as input of R.E.D.-III) for MEP computation using PC-GAMESS,
GAMESS-US or Gaussian. We are going to develop this part...
Quoting Pavan G <pavanamber.gmail.com>:
> Although the charges add up to 0 in both the cases, there are significant
> differences in numbers and in some cases difference in the sign of charge.
> Could somebody please explain where I've gone wrong and/or the proper way to
> verify the charges produced by AMBER.
AMBER FF charge values are not reproducible. The charge diff. can be
up to 0.07 e in particular for methyl or methylene carbon.
So far, the only way to generate reproducible charge values is to use
the rigid-body algorythm implemented in R.E.D.
http://www.u-picardie.fr/labo/lbpd/RED/ You can use multi-orientation
RESP fit to get highly reproducible charge values, and
multi-conformation RESP fit to get general charge values more
compatible with MD simulation...
Please see also R.E.DD.B.
http://www.u-picardie.fr/labo/lbpd/REDDB/
where you will find many examples of projects with charge values...
regards, Francois
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