Adding ion to a force field

[alevilla]

Hi,
See my answer to your previous post. I hope it cover all the points

Properly including bromide in GROMOS96 54a7

Hi, The reason is that you change the name from BR → BR- and BR- is not defined as atomtype in the force field files. Atom type information are storage in ffnonbonded.itp in the [ atomtypes ] directive and [ nonbond_params ] directive (for gromos force field) and in the database atomtypes.atp. To know more on the format see File formats — GROMACS 2022.3 documentation yes. BR and BR- are different, it is more appropriate to describe them using different LJ parameters. When you add a…

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