I personally have not used AIM2000 software, but from what I see is that for optimization the software uses quantum chemical calculations. Hence, it may become costly in terms of computation power if one tries to optimize whole DNA by QM only. Also, it does not show QM-MM option here at this link: http://www.aim2000.de/help/helpindex.htm
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