Re: [AMBER] a question for hydrocarbons simulation using amber FF

From: Nahid Khiabani <nahidkhiabani.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 06:22:16 -0700

Dear David and Marc

Great.

Thanks a lot for your effective comments.

You helped me to much.

Best,
Nahid

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 6:18 AM, David A Case <case.biomaps.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015, Nahid Khiabani wrote:
> >
> > I modified the 3 coefficients to 0.0, 0.0, 0.5 for LJ interactions and to
> > 0.0, 0.0, 0.8333 for Coulombic interactions to some other values.
> According
> > the amber FF parameters and my modified coefficients I have more accurate
> > results in comparison with experimental data rather than the above common
> > values. So, I am wondering if I can use the modified values for the
> > coefficients?
>
> Of course you can: you can use whatever force field you wish. Just
> remember
> that you are no longer using the "Amber" force field, but one of your own
> devising. (I'd personally be suspicious of large changes to these values,
> but
> small modifications might indeed make sense. Amber was primarily devised
> for
> biomolecules, and there might well be better simple parameters for
> alkanes.)
>
> ...dac
>
>
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-- 
Thanks a lot for your attention,
Best Regards,
Nahid
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