I vote yes include it. Ask chatGPT ;-)

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> Le 16 mars 2023 à 09:11, Francois Berenger <mli...@ligand.eu> a écrit :
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> Am I right that rdkit has an UFF implementation, but the
> recommended partial charges for UFF cannot be computed by rdkit?
> Those charges are called QEq in the UFF seminal paper[1].
> 
> I think openbabel can compute them, but I am surprised if this is not 
> included in rdkit.
> 
> Does it mean that the UFF rdkit implementation doesn't include electrostatic
> interactions?
> 
> Will hardcore computational chemists send me to hell if I use UFF in 
> combination
> with the MMFF94 partial charges?
> 
> Should we include QEq charges in rdkit? (I honestly don't know yet if this is 
> hard
> to implement)
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Francois.
> 
> [1] UFF, a full periodic table force field for molecular mechanics and 
> molecular dynamics simulations
> https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja00051a040
> 
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