Re: [AMBER] Question of Parameter Defaults

From: Robert Molt <rwmolt07.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:49:12 -0400

thank you!


On 8/13/16 3:48 PM, David A Case wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016, Robert Molt wrote:
>> I am confused on an aspect of parameter values in the GAFF/Amber force
>> fields. Using defaults of ff14SB for a molecule I put through
>> Antechamber, the frcmod file has the value
>>
>> CA-CA-CT-OS 1 0.000 0.000 2.000 same as X
>> -c2-c3-X
>>
>> for the above dihedral. My understanding is that the order of parameters
>> goes dividing factor, k force constant, n periodicity, phi phase angle.
> You can find this in $AMBERHOME/dat/leap/parm/gaff.dat, as X-c2-c3-X, along
> with a literature reference. Aliphatic torsions are often either very close
> to zero, or exactly zero, since there is little intrinsic barrier to rotation.
>
> ...hope this helps...dac
>
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