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From: jojo J <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010 13:17
Subject: [gmx-users] energy contributions / question about solvating
To: [email protected]

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have a question on LJ and coulomb 1-4 energy terms. These are considered as 
> intramolecular interactions and LJ and coulomb SR as intermolecular. If 
> nrexcl in top file is 3, this means we obtain 1-4 energies, 1-5, 1-6,.... Now 
> what we calculate as intermolecular (SR) contributions includes 1-5, 1-6,.. 
> right? and 1-4 are listed separetely in g energy list.

Yes. Crafty use of energy groups will make this clear, but that's not a 
scalable solution if you want to look at (say) 1-5 interactions in multiple 
different molecules that have such interactions, since you can only have 256 
energy groups.
 
> so to get energies between particles one needs to ecxlude 1-5, 1-6 ...on each 
> molecule?

Look at using energy groups and energy group exclusions.

> also I would like to know what is specefic with 1-4 interactions, whay are 
> they listed separately. I mean why do we have not 1-5 for instance?

Historically, people parameterizing found that 1-5 (and larger) interactions 
worked OK as they still are, but that 1-4 needed various compromises. In part, 
that's because they interact with the dihedral on those atoms. The common 
forcefields have various approaches in this regard, and GROMACS manages to 
cater to all of these.

Mark

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