On 29/12/11, Olivia Waring <owar...@princeton.edu> wrote:

> I apologize for the truncated message; I pressed send too soon. 
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> According to the Gromacs manual, pairs cannot be generated automatically for 
> the Buckingham potential,
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Where does it say this?
 

> but the [ pairtypes ] directive seems to only accept parameters in LJ form 
> (i.e. c6 and c12, instead of a, b, and c6). I've been looking into ways to 
> interconvert between the two potential forms, but haven't found anything... 
> Can anyone who has successfully generated a topology using the Buckingham 
> potential shed light on this issue?

 
You want a 1-4 interaction using Buckingham functional form? If so, I don't 
think GROMACS supports it. If you're trying to combine bits of force fields 
that use L-J with bits of force fields that use Buckingham, then that's almost 
certainly a bad idea.
 
Mark 
 

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> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Olivia Waring <owar...@princeton.edu> wrote:
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> > Hello Gromacs users,
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> > I'm using a Buckingham potential for the nonbonded interactions in my 
> > system, so I have the following lines in my forcefield.itp file:
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> > [ defaults ]
> > ; nbfunc        comb-rule       gen-pairs       fudgeLJ         fudgeQQ
> >   2             1               no              1.0             1.0
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> > Olivia Waring (王维娅)
> > Princeton University '12
> > AB Chemistry
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> Olivia Waring (王维娅)
> Princeton University '12
> AB Chemistry
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