[gmx-users] partial charges

[David van der Spoel]

On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 01:18 +0100, Joanne Hanna wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was wodnering how the partial charges for ligands in the ffG43a2.rtp files were calculated, more specifically the ATP molecule.
> I have calculated (fitted) charges for an AMP molecule using gaussian and 6-31g basis sets, however these charges are quite drastically different to the ATP charges, particularly on the adenine ring.
> Also on an unrelated matter and probably a very trivial question but if i was wanting to use position restraints on atoms of 10 Kj/mol, in the posre.itp file this would correspond to values of 10 in each of the x y and z direction for each atom? is this correct?
> 
check recent gromos papers, you will probably find that the charges were
determined empirically . that doesn't matter if they give the right
results.
> Many thanks
> Jo
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