Advanced Examples (Pharmaceutical)

As quantum computing technology matures and becomes more accessible, its integration into the pharmaceutical industry is poised to usher in a new era of medical innovation. The promise of faster, more efficient drug discovery and development, coupled with the potential for personalized treatments, positions quantum computing as a key driver of future advancements in healthcare and medicine, marking a significant leap forward in our ability to combat disease and improve human health.

• Example: Quantum Protein Folding | Scientific background: Irbäck, Anders & Knuthson, Lucas & Mohanty, Sandipan & Peterson, Carsten. (2022). Folding lattice proteins with quantum annealing.

• Example: Quantum RNA Folding of the Tobacco Mild Green Mosaic Virus | Scientific background: Fox DM, MacDermaid CM, Schreij AMA, Zwierzyna M, Walker RC. RNA folding using quantum computers,. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Apr 11;18(4):e1010032. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010032. PMID: 35404931; PMCID: PMC9022793

• Example: Efficient Exploration of Phenol Derivatives | Scientific background: Efficient Exploration of Phenol Derivatives Using QUBO Solvers with Group Contribution-Based Approaches; Chien-Hung Cho, Jheng-Wei Su, Lien-Po Yu, Ching-Ray Chang, Pin-Hong Chen, Tzu-Wei Lin, Shin-Hong Liu, Tsung-Hui Li, and Ying-Yuan Lee; Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2024 63 (10), 4248-4256; DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.3c03331

• Example: Enzyme Target Prediction | Scientific background: Hoang M Ngo, My T Thai, Tamer Kahveci, QuTIE: Quantum optimization for Target Identification by Enzymes, Bioinformatics Advances, 2023;, vbad112

• Example: Breast Cancer Prediction using the Dynex scikit-learn Plugin | Scientific background: Bhatia, H.S., Phillipson, F. (2021). Performance Analysis of Support Vector Machine Implementations on the D-Wave Quantum Annealer. In: Paszynski, M., Kranzlmüller, D., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2021. ICCS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12747. Springer, Cham