Hi Ross,
Thanks for your reply. So is it safe to use the ff03 force field from
Amber10 not Amber8 ?
Dongshan
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Ross Walker <ross.rosswalker.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Dong,
>
> > Do you notice the difference of Amber ff03 force field between Amber8
> > and
> > Amber10 for dipeptide ACE-ALA-NME? I found the charges of atoms from
> > ACE and
> > NME terminals are different in Amber8 ff03 and Amber10 ff03 force
> > fields but
> > the charges of atoms from ALA unit are same. The detailed charges for
> > all
> > atoms in Ala2 dipeptide are shown as follows:
>
> Yes the original incarnation of the FF03 force field use the FF94 charges
> for the N and C termini. This was later updated to FF03 charges for the N
> and C termini to be consistent with the rest of the force field. Yong Duan
> can comment more on the effect this has since it is not clear to me how
> this
> effects the results. The original published information for FF03 I assume
> used FF94 charges for the termini.
>
> Also note bugfix.10 for AMBER 8 which addresses some issues with ACE and
> NME
> in FF03 - make sure you have applied this. Also bugfix.19.
>
> All the best
> Ross
>
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