[gmx-users] OPLS and GROMOS forcefields

[Justin Lemkul]

On 8/21/15 5:08 PM, Stella Nickerson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm simulating a polymer dissolved with an ionic liquid. Would it be
> possible to use the OPLS forcefield for the solvent and the GROMOS
> forcefield for the particle, or would that result be inherently meaningless?
>

Force fields are designed to be self-consistent entities.  Absent any really 
solid validation data using well-defined quantities, demonstrating that such a 
model is valid, I'd call it very unreliable.

-Justin

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