How to Cite Work Using Rowan

Any publication using Rowan should cite it as follows:

Rowan Scientific. https://www.rowansci.com (accessed yyyy-mm-dd).

Engines

Rowan uses many computational engines to run workflows; please cite the ones you've used.

EngineReference(s)
CRESTcrest-lab.org
PSI4psicode.org
PySCFpyscf.org
xtbxtb-docs

Workflows

WorkflowPaper(s)
ADME-ToxADMET-AI: 10.1101/2023.12.28.573531
Conformer searchETKDG: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00654
CREST: 10.1063/5.0197592
MCMM: github.com/ncasetti7/multiple_minimum_monte_carlo
DescriptorsMordred: 10.1186/s13321-018-0258-y
mordred-community: github.com/JacksonBurns/mordred-community
DockingVina: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155183
Vinardo: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155183
QuickVina 2: :10.1093/bioinformatics/btv082
Double-ended TS searchFSM: 10.48550/arXiv.2407.09763
Global electrophilicity (GEI)10.1073/pnas.95.20.11578
HBA (pKBHX)10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-kv6d6-v2
Intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC)geomeTRIC
Ion-mobility mass spectrometry predictionCoSIMS: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b01018
CoSIMS (Rowan's version): github.com/rowansci/cosims
Macroscopic pKa and BBBStarling: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-t8s9z-v2
Kingfisher
Microscopic pKaRowan pKa: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-8489b
RDKit
RDKit
Nevolianis 2025: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-8bj2t-v4
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA)ColabFold: 10.1038/s41592-022-01488-1
Pose-analysis MDOpenMM: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c06662
Protein binder designBoltzGen
Protein–ligand co-foldingBoltz-1: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-kv6d6
Boltz-2: 10.1101/2025.06.14.659707
Chai-1: 10.1101/2024.10.10.615955v2
Solubilityfastsolv: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-93qp3
Kingfisher
ESOL

Functionals/Potentials

In addition to any functional/potential specific citations, please also cite LibXC for any DFT computations run.

Basis Sets

For individual basis set references, see the Basis Set Exchange.

Other

PurposeReference(s)
Molecular optimizationgeomeTRIC
Periodic optimizationASE
SMILES featuresRDKit
PubChem importPubChem

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