[gmx-users] Adding a new force field to Gromacs

[David van der Spoel]

Yang Ye wrote:
> Actually it is about to add a new form of potential energy function.
> A quick but dirty method is to user User Table for NB interaction. Check 
> it from the manual.
> 
> Regards,
> Yang Ye
> 
> Tandia, Adama wrote:
>> Dear ALL:
>>
>> Is it documented somewhere how can one add a new non-bonded force field
>> into Gromacs? I'm interested on adding the Stillinger-Weber force field,
>> with two and three body contributions. Has anyone ever tried this
>> before?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
Except that gromacs can not do three body nonbonded interactions. It 
wouldn't be very hard to add the force calculations, but the input would 
be slightly more involved. If you want to do this yourself then we 
should move this thread to the developers mailing list.
-- 
David.
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