This is a README pertaining the changes made to implement the Neutralised Polarised Surface Area implicit solvent model in Amber8. Changes in source code have only been made to sander. The OFF libraries npsa03.lib and npsa94.lib have been added and can be found in the directory dat/contrib/npsa; this library is used with t/xleap to neutralise and polarise the system. To add this directory to leap's search path you can invoke tleap with the argument '-I $AMBERHOME/dat/contrib/npsa'. To test, if the code is working, a case was installed in the test directory (test/npsa). For an introduction to how to use RAMD in AMBER8, an example can be found in the directory examples/npsa. Instructions on usage are included in the README in the mentioned directory. You can find a README.npsa and a CHANGES.npsa file in the src/sander subdirectory, pointing out and explaining the changes to the source code. The code and the OFF library were written by Dr. Ting Wang, EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany (email: ting.wang@eml-r.villa-bosch.de). The NPSA model has been described in: - Wang, T and Wade, RC: Implicit Solvent Models for Flexible Protein-protein Docking by Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Proteins, 50, (2003) 158-169. - Wang, T and Wade, RC: Force Field Effects on a Beta-Sheet Protein Domain Structure in Thermal Unfolding Simulations. J. Chem. Theory Comput. (2006) 2, 140 -148. 2005/12/05 Tim Johann , EML Research gGmbH, Heidelberg, Germany.