[gmx-users] Going from OPLS-AA dihedrals to CHARMM22 dihedrals.

[Justin Lemkul]

On 7/15/14, 1:29 PM, Dawid das wrote:
> Dear Gromacs experts,
>
> I have following issue. I need torsional parameters from this publication:
> D. V. Dmitrienko et al., Biochemistry (Moscow), 2006, Vol. 71, No. 10,
> 1133-1152
> where OPLS-AA FF has been used but I need to adapt them for CHARMM22 FF.
> Now the thing is that there are two different torsional energy expression
> used in those FFs.
> How can I go from one to another?
> To be precise I want to adapt parameters from the above mentioned
> publication to expression  for torsional potential from this publication:
>
> N. Reuter et al., J. Phys. Chem. B, 2002, Vol. 106,  6310-6321
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>

It's not wise to try to hack parameters developed for one force field into 
another.  Dihedrals are especially dangerous, because their validity is also 
dependent upon the nonbonded interactions of atoms 1 and 4 in the interaction; 
differences in charges and LJ parameters between OPLS-AA and CHARMM will make 
the dihedral non-transferable.

-Justin

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