Merck Molecular Force Field
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Merck Molecular Force Field (MMFF) is a family of force fields
Force field (chemistry)
In the context of molecular modeling, a force field refers to the form and parameters of mathematical functions used to describe the potential energy of a system of particles . Force field functions and parameter sets are derived from both experimental work and high-level quantum mechanical...

 developed by Merck Research Laboratories. They are based on the MM3 force field. MMFF is not optimized for a single use (like simulating proteins or small molecules), but tries to perform well for a wide range of organic chemistry calculations. The parameters in the force field have been derived from computational data.

The first published force field in the family is MMFF94 . A set of molecular structures and the corresponding output of Halgren's MMFF94 implementation is provided at the Computational Chemistry List (http://server.ccl.net/cca/data/MMFF94/) for validation of other MMFF implementations.
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