Assigning Charges

The following code example shows how to use the assign partial charges. The program reads all of the molecules in the input file, assigns partial charges to each based on the selected method (the default is -method mmff94) and writes each charged molecule to the output file.

Command Line Interface

A description of the command line interface can be obtained by executing the program with the –help argument.

prompt> java AssignCharges --help

will generate the following output:

Simple parameter list

 Charging options
   -method : which set of charges to apply

 input/output options
   -in : Input molecule
   -out : Output molecule (usually an oeb)

Code

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AssignCharges.java and AssignCharges.txt interface file

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