From chemistry-request |-at-| ccl.net Wed Dec 3 14:19:31 2003 Received: from gip2.u-picardie.fr (gip2.u-picardie.fr [193.49.184.4]) by server.ccl.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hB3JIxxp030007 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:18:59 -0500 Received: by gip2.u-picardie.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id E269E9AD8; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:18:58 +0100 (CET) To: chemistry^at^ccl.net Subject: Resp Esp charge Derive (RED v-1.0) release Message-ID: <1070479138.3fce3722d38fd^at^webmail.u-picardie.fr> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:18:58 +0100 (CET) From: FyD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.6 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.9 required=7.0 tests=NO_COST,USER_AGENT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Dear All, I am pleased to announce the release of program RED version 1.0. (http://www.u-picardie.fr/labo/lbpd/RED/) R.E.D. (Resp Esp charge Derive) calculate automatically 'RESP' and 'ESP' charges starting > from an un-optimized PDB structure. R.E.D. sequentially executes (i) either program "GAMESS" or program "Gaussian" to minimize the studied structure and to compute the corresponding Molecular Electrostatic Potential, and (ii) program "RESP" to fit the atom-centered charges to the grid previously determined. Format conversions needed during the procedure and "GAMESS", "Gaussian" and "RESP" inputs are automatically generated. Moreover, a new RESP fitting procedure is proposed allowing to get highly reproducible 'RESP' and 'ESP' charges whatever the QM software is and whatever the starting Cartesian coordinates are. R.E.D. makes the development of the 'RESP' and 'ESP' charges a straightforward, simple and highly reliable procedure. A graphical user-friendly interface, X R.E.D., has been also developed to execute R.E.D. and modify R.E.D. variables. R.E.D. and X R.E.D. use is described in a downloadable manual. Program R.E.D. has been written with the "Perl" programming language and program X R.E.D. with the "tcl/tk" programming language, making R.E.D. and X R.E.D. highly flexible and portable. These two programs have been tested on PC-LINUX and SGI-IRIX workstations and should work on other UNIX platforms. R.E.D. and X R.E.D. are "free" (i.e. provided at no cost) for all academic users after signing a license. Best regards, Francois F.-Y. Dupradeau -- The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA Faculte de Pharmacie, UPJV, Amiens, France -- http://www.u-picardie.fr/labo/lbpd/fyd.htm