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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi All,<br><br>Recently there has been a new set of ion parameters published by Joung and Chetham and I am interested in running some test runs using these parameters. These set of parameters are based on using LB rule (arithmetic mean) for sigmas.<br><br>However I am using OPLS-AA ff so I am using the combination rule 3 (geometric mean of corresponding A and B values). My question is that can I use the exact sigma values from Cheatham for my simulations? I'm almost positive that I have to change these sigma values to be consistent with the combination rule that I am using. In fact there is a paper by Horinek et al that has a nice table of different ionic sigma and epsilon values from different parameter sets (Aqvist, Jensen, Cheatham,..). The article is
here:<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JCPSA6000130000012124507000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes">http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JCPSA6000130000012124507000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes</a></span><br><br>In that table, they have mentioned two sigmas; a usual sigma (which is used with rule 2) and a sigma prime (which can be used with rule 3). However it seems sort of unclear to me how they got these value since in some references that they've mentioned I could find either sigma or sigma prime, not both. So I am guessing there must be some way to convert these two sigmas to each other.<br><br>So does anyone know if there is such way? Does GROMACS internally treats sigmas as "sigma prime" for OPLS-AA? I looked at the manual and also searched the mailing list to find an explanation but without luck. I really appreciate any help on
clarifying this.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reza Salari<br></div></div></body></html>