Research Article

Fast Atomic Charge Calculation for Implementation into a Polarizable Force Field and Application to an Ion Channel Protein

Figure 1

Correlation of NPA atomic charges calculated with BPT and DFT employing a 6-31G(d,p) basis set. The calibration set included 175 compounds containing the elements H, C, N, O, F, Si, P, S, Cl, and Zn. The correlation coefficient is and the standard deviation SD = 0.05 e.