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. 2023 Jan 11;63(2):412–431. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01127

Table 1. Some Recent Versions of Popular Force Fields.

force field Pola targets refs
Amber ff14ipq no protein, RNA (68)
Amber ff15ipq no protein, RNA (69)
Amber ff14sb no protein, RNA (70)
Amber ff19sb no protein, RNA (71)
Amoeba yes protein, RNA, DNA (72, 73)
GAFF no small molecules (74)
GAFF2 no small molecules (75)
Charmm36 no proteins, nucleic acids, lipids (76)
CGenFF no small molecules (77)
Charmm Drude yes protein, RNA (78)
GROMOS 54A8 no protein (79)
GROMOS 2016H66 no small molecules (80)
TraPPE no liquids (81)
OPLS-AA no liquids (82)
OPLS3 no drug-like small molecules, proteins (83)
OPLS3e no drug-like small molecules (84)
MM3,MM4 no small molecules (85)
MMFF94 no small molecules, proteins (8690)
MMFF94S no small molecules, proteins (91, 92)
Smirnoff99Frosst no small molecules (93)
OpenFF-1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 no small molecules (94)
ReaxFF yes reactive systems (95)
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Pol indicates whether polarizability is included in the FF explicitly.