How are the parameter files for new force field constructed?

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Abhishek Tyagi

Hi Abel,

I want to construct the NAMD topology and parameter file, i have used Cgenff, now I have abc.str file, my question is that how to get the parameter and topology file from this file. I don't have access to charmm.

Dr. Rohan Meshram

You can use paramchem at

https://cgenff.paramchem.org/