Many Thanks Ehud! I was certainly not aware of that and I'll check it now..
Amir On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Ehud Schreiber <schr...@compugen.co.il>wrote: > Hi again, > > > > Yes, you can simply specify sigma and epsilon, but indeed in your case you > do not want to do so but rather to specify C_6 and C_{12} with the former > being zero to avoid attraction. > > Your .top file should include a [ defaults ] section, perhaps through an > #include of a .itp file. Perhaps yours is in ffamber99.itp (I don’t have it > installed so I can’t tell). In this section there are 5 parameters; the > second is a “combination rule” which must equal 1 for the two numbers to > represent indeed C_6 and C_{12} (see table 5.3, eq. 5.1-5.4, and in page > 112). > > In short, check whether the second parameter in the [ defaults ] section of > ffamber99.itp is 1, if not that’s probably the problem. Of course, if you > change this you’ll screw up all the other parameters, so it seems you could > either change the force field or create your copy of the files with all the > relevant LJ parameters changed to the “combination rule”=1 convention. > > > > > > *From:* Ehud Schreiber > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:01 PM > *To:* 'gmx-users@gromacs.org' > *Subject:* RE: [nonbond_params] section , choice of parameters > > > > Hi Amir, > > > > Are you sure you’re giving the parameters indeed as C_6 and C_{12}? > > According to the combination rule in the [ defaults ] section, you may be > giving the two parameters directly as sigma and epsilon; sigma=0 (as well as > epsilon=0) would give an identically zero potential . See sections 5.3.3 and > 5.7.1 in the manual (version 4.0). > > > > -- > gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org > http://lists.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users > Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! > Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the > www interface or send it to gmx-users-requ...@gromacs.org. > Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php >
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