Michael R. Shirts

Michael R. Shirts

University of Colorado Boulder

H-index: 49

North America-United States

About Michael R. Shirts

Michael R. Shirts, With an exceptional h-index of 49 and a recent h-index of 36 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Colorado Boulder, specializes in the field of Computational Chemistry, Computational Biology, Chemical Engineering, Biophysics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Coiled-coil domains are sufficient to drive liquid-liquid phase separation in protein models

Using physical property surrogate models to perform accelerated multi-fidelity optimization of force field parameters

Biophysical Rationale for the Selective Inhibition of PTP1B over TCPTP by Nonpolar Terpenoids

Ensemble of expanded ensembles: A generalized ensemble approach with enhanced flexibility and parallelizability

Analysis of neutral mutational drift in an allosteric enzyme

Development and benchmarking of open force field 2.0. 0: the Sage small molecule force field

Programmable de novo designed coiled coil-mediated phase separation in mammalian cells

Alchemical Metadynamics: Adding Alchemical Variables to Metadynamics to Enhance Sampling in Free Energy Calculations

Michael R. Shirts Information

University

Position

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Citations(all)

20819

Citations(since 2020)

9137

Cited By

15580

hIndex(all)

49

hIndex(since 2020)

36

i10Index(all)

81

i10Index(since 2020)

70

Email

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University of Colorado Boulder

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Michael R. Shirts Skills & Research Interests

Computational Chemistry

Computational Biology

Chemical Engineering

Biophysics

Top articles of Michael R. Shirts

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Coiled-coil domains are sufficient to drive liquid-liquid phase separation in protein models

Biophysical Journal

Dominique A Ramirez

Loren E Hough

Michael R Shirts

2024/2/14

Using physical property surrogate models to perform accelerated multi-fidelity optimization of force field parameters

Digital Discovery

Owen C Madin

Michael R Shirts

2023

Biophysical Rationale for the Selective Inhibition of PTP1B over TCPTP by Nonpolar Terpenoids

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Anika J Friedman

Hannah M Padgette

Levi Kramer

Evan T Liechty

Gregory W Donovan

...

2023/9/20

Ensemble of expanded ensembles: A generalized ensemble approach with enhanced flexibility and parallelizability

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.06938

Wei-Tse Hsu

Michael R Shirts

2023/8/14

Analysis of neutral mutational drift in an allosteric enzyme

Protein Science

Evan T Liechty

Andrew Hren

Levi Kramer

Gregory Donovan

Anika J Friedman

...

2023/8

Development and benchmarking of open force field 2.0. 0: the Sage small molecule force field

Journal of chemical theory and computation

Simon Boothroyd

Pavan Kumar Behara

Owen C Madin

David F Hahn

Hyesu Jang

...

2023/5/11

Programmable de novo designed coiled coil-mediated phase separation in mammalian cells

Nature Communications

Maruša Ramšak

Dominique A Ramirez

Loren E Hough

Michael R Shirts

Sara Vidmar

...

2023/12/2

Alchemical Metadynamics: Adding Alchemical Variables to Metadynamics to Enhance Sampling in Free Energy Calculations

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Wei-Tse Hsu

Valerio Piomponi

Pascal T Merz

Giovanni Bussi

Michael R Shirts

2023/2/28

A water model with improved thermodynamic properties over a large pressure and temperature range optimized using multistate reweighting and configuration space mapping

Himanshu Paliwal

Michael Shirts

2023/10/30

Bayesian-inference-driven model parametrization and model selection for 2CLJQ fluid models

Journal of chemical information and modeling

Owen C Madin

Simon Boothroyd

Richard A Messerly

Josh Fass

John D Chodera

...

2022/2/7

Adding alchemical variables to metadynamics to enhance sampling in free energy calculations

arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01329

Wei-Tse Hsu

Valerio Piomponi

Pascal T Merz

Giovanni Bussi

Michael R Shirts

2022/6/2

physical_validation: A Python package to assess the physical validity of molecular simulation results

Journal of open source software

Pascal T Merz

Wei-Tse Hsu

Matt W Thompson

Simon Boothroyd

Chris C Walker

...

2022

Improving Force Field Accuracy by Training against Condensed-Phase Mixture Properties

Journal of chemical theory and computation

Simon Boothroyd

Owen C Madin

David L Mobley

Lee-Ping Wang

John D Chodera

...

2022/5/9

Obtaining and characterizing stable bicontinuous cubic morphologies and their nanochannels in lyotropic liquid crystal membranes

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Subin Sahu

Nathanael S Schwindt

Benjamin J Coscia

Michael R Shirts

2022/11/23

Open force field evaluator: An automated, efficient, and scalable framework for the estimation of physical properties from molecular simulation

Journal of chemical theory and computation

Simon Boothroyd

Lee-Ping Wang

David L Mobley

John D Chodera

Michael R Shirts

2022/5/4

Allosteric Inhibition of PTP1B by a Nonpolar Terpenoid

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Anika J Friedman

Evan T Liechty

Levi Kramer

Ankur Sarkar

Jerome M Fox

...

2022/10/12

Identifying signatures of proteolytic stability and monomeric propensity in O-glycosylated insulin using molecular simulation

Journal of computer-aided molecular design

Wei-Tse Hsu

Dominique A Ramirez

Tarek Sammakia

Zhongping Tan

Michael R Shirts

2022/4

Folding Coarse-Grained Oligomer Models with PyRosetta

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Theodore L Fobe

Christopher C Walker

Garrett A Meek

Michael R Shirts

2022/9/30

Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

Living Journal of Computational Molecular Science

Jérôme Hénin

Tony Lelièvre

Michael R Shirts

Omar Valsson

Lucie Delemotte

2022/2/8

How cooperatively folding are homopolymer molecular knots?

Macromolecules

Christopher C Walker

Theodore L Fobe

Michael R Shirts

2022/9/22

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Vijay Pande

Stanford University

H-index: 85
Michael K Gilson

Michael K Gilson

University of California, San Diego

H-index: 69
David van der Spoel

David van der Spoel

Uppsala Universitet

H-index: 56
David Mobley

David Mobley

University of California, Irvine

H-index: 36
Lee-Ping Wang

Lee-Ping Wang

University of California, Davis

H-index: 33
Christopher D. Snow

Christopher D. Snow

Colorado State University

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