Sully Research Group

Output

Publications & Talks

  1. Sharif, Kumar & MacKerell.

    Non-Covalent Molecular Interaction Rules to Define Internal Dimer Coordinates for Quantum Mechanical Potential Energy Scans

    Journal of Computational Chemistry, 2025 · DOI

  2. Croitoru, Kumar, Lambry, Lee, Sharif, Yu, MacKerell, Aleksandrov.

    Increasing the Accuracy and Robustness of the CHARMM General Force Field with an Expanded Training Set

    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2025

  3. Bodun, …, Anuththara Samadhi, …, Sharif, et al..

    De Novo Design and Bioactivity Prediction of Mitotic Kinesin Eg5 Inhibitors Using MPNN and LSTM-Based Transfer Learning

    Computers in Biology and Medicine 195 (2025): 110672

  4. Gao, …, Sharif, et al..

    BioBricks.ai: A Versioned Data Registry for Life Sciences Data Assets

    arXiv, 2024 · DOI

  5. Orr, Sharif, Wang, MacKerell.

    Preserving the Integrity of Empirical Force Fields

    Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 62 (2022): 3825–31

  6. Sharif.

    Cocktail Shaker: An Open Source Drug Expansion and Enumeration Library for Peptides

    Journal of Open Source Software 5, no. 52 (2020): 1992

  7. In preparation.

    Automated Computational Screening of Temperature-Dependent Cannabinoid Solubility in Industrial Solvents

    Manuscript in preparation

Selected talks

  1. 2026

    Advancing Oncology with Botanical Flavonoids

    American Chemical Society Cannabis Track; PLNTMED Conference

  2. 2024

    A Computational and Organic Approach to Balance the Van der Waals Force

    Biophysical Society

  3. 2023

    Optimization of the Off-Diagonal Lennard-Jones Terms in the CHARMM Additive and Drude Force Fields

    ACS Computational Chemistry

  4. 2023

    Porting Global-Chem Knowledge Graphs into Neo4j

    NODES 2022

  5. 2022

    The Pythonic Common Chemical Universe

    PyData Global

  6. 2022

    How to Select Compounds for Force Field Parameterization

    International Society for Biocuration

  7. 2021

    Using Python to Build a Chemical Knowledge Graph of IUPAC to SMILES

    PyData Global

  8. 2021

    CGenFF Compass

    International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology

  9. 2020

    Cocktail Shaker

    RDKit User Group Meeting

Support

Industry partnerships (including Standard Seed Corporation) and private funding. Combustion work: partner and grant funding being pursued.