Re: [AMBER] about divcon

From: Alan <alanwilter.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:07:44 +0000

Thanks Case, I found the manual, but now your answer raised a new doubt: if
AmberTools 1.3 will not use mopac neither divcon, what it will use so?

Thanks,

Alan

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 16:53, case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009, Alan wrote:
> >
> > I would actually want to know what exactly divcon is and does. I mean,
> would
> > it replace mopac when using antechamber? Is it more reliable than mopac?
>
> First, have you read the divcon manual? Briefly, divcon might be attractive
> if you want to look at very large quantum systems (e.g. whole proteins), or
> if you want to calculate chemical shifts at the semiempirical level.
>
> Second, for the purposes of what antechamber needs (AM1 Mulliken charges
> for minimized geometries of small molecules) divcon and mopac should be
> completely equivalent. [The next release of AmberTools won't use either
> mopac or divcon for antechamber.]
>
> ...dac
>
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