On 2013-02-04 17:18, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote:
>> * Are there cases where MMFF94s should be preferred to Ghemical?
>
> Everything. The heuristic should be something like "MMFF94 if it works, UFF 
> otherwise." Ghemical is included for backwards-compatibility -- it was much 
> easier to implement than MMFF94.
>
>> * Is GAFF particularly good at any systems that the others handle poorly?
>
> It's the "Generalized Amber Force Field." It should be fairly good with 
> proteins, but I don't think it's been tuned for speed as much as MMFF94 and 
> UFF have been.
>
Speed? Should make no difference at all. Lennard Jones + Coulomb on 
point charges. It is rather not for proteins (that is regular Amber) but 
for small (organic) ligand molecules.


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