[gmx-developers] Force Field validation

[Justin Lemkul]

On 6/10/14, 2:35 AM, Alexey Shvetsov wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Are there some common GROMACS workflow to validate forcefields and/or
> forcefields additions like glycam?
>
> I have converted GLYCAM forcefield to gromacs format. However it has large
> number of building blocks (~2.5k). GROMACS should have case sensetive building
> block names to deal with it
>

The first thing I'd do is scan across the different molecules and do 
single-point energy evaluations in Gromacs and a known implementation, 
presumably Amber.  That should give a good indication that the parameters have 
been ported over correctly.

-Justin

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