obenergy — calculate the energy for a molecule
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Copyright
Copyright (C) 2007 by Tim Vandermeersch.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 of the License.
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Open Babel 3.1 Oct 10, 2019 obenergy(1)
Description
The obenergy tool can be used to calculate the energy for molecules inside (multi-)molecule files (e.g.,
MOL2, etc.)
Examples
View the possible options, including available forcefields:
obenergy
Calculate the energy for the molecule(s) in file test.mol2:
obenergytest.mol2
Calculate the energy for the molecule(s) in file test.mol2 using the Ghemical forcefield:
obenergy-ffGhemicaltest.mol2
Calculate the energy for the molecule(s) in file test.mol2 and print out all individual energy
interactions:
obenergy-vtest.mol2Name
obenergy — calculate the energy for a molecule
Options
If no filename is given, obenergy will give all options including the available forcefields.
-v Verbose: print out all individual energy interactions
-ffforcefield
Select the forcefield
See Also
obabel(1), obminimize(1), obrotamer(1). The web pages for Open Babel can be found at: <http://openbabel.org/> The web pages for Open Babel Molecular Mechanics can be found at: <http://openbabel.org/wiki/Molecular_mechanics>
Synopsis
obenergy [OPTIONS] filename
