[phenixbb] Partial charges / fractional charges
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
rwgk at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 17 06:49:52 PST 2011
----- Original Message ----
> From: Ed Pozharski <epozh001 at umaryland.edu>
> To: PHENIX user mailing list <phenixbb at phenix-online.org>
> Sent: Mon, January 17, 2011 6:21:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [phenixbb] Partial charges / fractional charges
>
> On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:19 +0100, Romain Talon wrote:
> > It is maybe totally useless to put a charge equal to -0.5 instead of
> > -1
> > for an oxygen which is involved in a non-covalent binding with an ion
> > but I didn't found any information about that...
>
> It probably is useless as electrostatics is not included in the geometry
> term of the target function, afaiu.
Yes, that's true. Electrostatics are not used in phenix.refine since,
based on experience that it is not useful in this context.
Ralf
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