Hi Tom,
You are correct. The charges in the lib file should be those generated from
the RESP procedure. Gaussian is used to calculate the electrostatic
potential which is used to fit the charges using RESP. It looks like the
wrong lib file was uploaded. I never checked this before.
I will update the file to contain the correct charges.
Thanks for spotting this.
All the best
Ross
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amber-bounces.ambermd.org [mailto:amber-bounces.ambermd.org] On
> Behalf Of Tom Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:46 PM
> To: amber.ambermd.org
> Subject: [AMBER] Question of Tutorials-A1 about charges compuation from
> Guassian for Amber
>
> I have a question of Amber Tutorials-A1. Anyone can help with this
> question,
> thank you!
> http://ambermd.org/tutorials/advanced/tutorial1/
>
> In this tutorial, it seems to me that amber uses the partial charges
> computed from Gaussian.
> But i don't know why these values of partial charges computed from
> Gaussian
> become
> totally different after importing to Amber.
>
> Pls compare these two file:
> 1) the result from Guassian computation: Figure 1.4 at
> http://ambermd.org/tutorials/advanced/tutorial1/section1.htm
> 2) after manual assigning the type and the partial chage to each atom
> and
> generate the file of fam5.lib and fam5_leap.pdb in Section 3.3.1)
> Saving
> our new library file
> http://ambermd.org/tutorials/advanced/tutorial1/section3.htm
>
> you also can use xleap to see the charges
> $AMBERHOME/exe/xleap &
> loadoff fam5.lib
> loadamberparams fam5.frcmod
> FAM = copy FAM5
> mol = loadpdb fam5_leap.pdb
> edit mol
> you can see the charge of atoms
> They are totally different from the ones shown in Figure 1.4 which are
> calculated from Gaussian.
> Can anyone help exlain this? thanks!
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