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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2013 Jul 12;9(8):10.1021/ct4003477. doi: 10.1021/ct4003477

Table 1.

The solvation free energies of 15 amino acid side-chain analogs calculated with GAFF/AM1-BCC, GAFF-GAAMP, CHARMM27 and CHARMM27-GAAMP, other force fields (AMBER, CHARMM22 and OPLS-AA)60 as well as experiment data are shown. Unit is in kcal/mol.

Mol GAFF/
AM1-BCC
GAFF-
GAAMP
CHARMM27 CHARMM27-
GAAMP
AMBER CHARMM22 OPLS-AA exp
Ala 2.49 2.51 2.31 2.33 2.57 2.44 2.31 1.94
Val 2.42 2.36 1.98 2.06 2.69 2.52 2.59 1.99
Leu 2.42 2.28 2.37 2.40 2.72 2.94 2.69 2.28
Ile 2.43 2.35 2.04 2.13 2.84 2.67 2.73 2.15
Ser −3.60 −3.74 −4.96 −3.48 −4.37 −4.59 −4.36 −5.06
Thr −3.62 −3.88 −4.86 −3.53 −3.83 −4.22 −4.11 −4.88
Phe −1.29 −0.87 −0.53 −1.14 0.10 0.09 −0.54 −0.76
Tyr −5.86 −6.17 −5.16 −5.82 −4.23 −4.46 −5.25 −6.11
Cys −0.45 −0.06 −0.52 −1.30 0.11 0.02 −1.59 −1.24
Met 0.04 0.19 0.27 −1.00 0.91 1.08 −1.27 −1.48
Asn −8.99 −7.96 −8.15 −7.66 −7.80 −7.89 −8.53 −9.68
Gln −9.03 −7.01 −7.82 −6.77 −7.69 −7.51 −8.4 −9.38
Trp −7.34 −5.72 −4.57 −5.43 −4.88 −3.57 −4.44 −5.88
Hid −8.01 −9.47 −10.44 −8.89 −8.43 −10 −8.87 −10.27
Hie −8.46 −9.03 −10.77 −8.11 −8.98 −10.27 −9.05 −10.27
AUE 0.92 0.85 0.63 0.89 1.22 1.06 0.75