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With the danger of severe oversimplification, which unavoidably leads to improper underevaluation of important recent developments, I shall try to indicate where traditional, classical MD has brought us today, or will bring us tomorrow. This concerns the techniques rather than the applications, which cannot be reviewed in the present context. The main aspects to consider concern algorithms and force fields. 

Another way is to define an improper torsion angle e- (for atoms 1-2-3-4 in Figure 7-11 in combination with a potential lihe V((r- = fc l-cos2fi.-), which has its minima at <> = 0 and 7t. This of course implies the risk that, if the starting geometry is far from reality, the optimi2 ation will perhaps lead to the wrong local minimum. 

One example of a quantitative measure of molecular chirality is the continuous chirality measure (CCM) [39, 40]. It was developed in the broader context of continuous symmetry measures. A chital object can be defined as an object that lacks improper elements of symmetry (mirror plane, center of inversion, or improper rotation axes). The farther it is from a situation in which it would have an improper element of symmetry, the higher its continuous chirality measure. 

Continuous chirality measure is then defined as follows given a configuration of points P = I, its chirality content is determined by finding the nearest configuration of points Pi - 2 which has an improper element of symmetry, and by calculating the distance between the two sets using Eq. (26). 

Example Yon can monitor improper torsion angles to determine wh ich side of a substrate m olecn le faces the active site of a protein. Select three atoms on the substrate molecule and a fourth in the active site. These atom s define an improper torsion angle. Save th is selection as a named selection. Then observe a plot of this improper torsion angle (in the Molecular Dynam ics Results dialog... 

An atom lhai hassp h yhridi/alion lends lo be coplanar wilh its attached aloms. This effect isaccoiinled for by improper torsions in Olher force fields and by oiil-of-plane-bending inlcraclions in... 

V these three functional forms, the improper torsion definition is most widely used as it can then be easily included with the proper torsional terms in the force field. However, the... 

The choice of where to locate the boundary between regions of the system is important. A number of studies have shown that very poor end results will be obtained if this is chosen improperly. There is no rigorous way to choose the best partitioning, but some general rules of thumb can be stated ... 

An atom that has sp hybridization tends to be coplanar with its attached atoms. This effect is accounted for by improper torsions in other force fields and by out-of-plane-bending interactions in... 

The OPLS atom types are a superset of the AMBER united atom types and the bonding parameters are just those of AMBER, supplemented where needed by the OPLS developers. The bond stretch, angle bending, dihedral angle and improper dihedral angle terms are identical to those of AMBER. Unlike AMBER, different combination rules are used for the van der Waals parameters, no hydrogen bonding term is used and no lone pairs are used. 

HyperChem uses the improper dihedral angle formed by central atom - neighbor 1 - neighbor 2 - neighbor 3, where the order of neighbors is how they appear in a HIN file. Not all planar atoms customarily have associated improper torsions. The order of atoms is arbitrary but has been consistently chosen by the original authors of the CHARMM force field. The templates contain equivalent CHARMM definitions of improper torsions for amino acids. Improper dihedral angles cannot be defined that do not have a central atom, as is sometimes done in CHARMM calculations. 

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