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Molecular docking via quantum approximate optimization algorithm

Quantum Physics 2024-05-17 v2 Chemical Physics Biomolecules

Abstract

Molecular docking plays a pivotal role in drug discovery and precision medicine, enabling us to understand protein functions and advance novel therapeutics. Here, we introduce a potential alternative solution to this problem, the digitized-counterdiabatic quantum approximate optimization algorithm (DC-QAOA), which utilizes counterdiabatic driving and QAOA on a quantum computer. Our method was applied to analyze diverse biological systems, including the SARS-CoV-2 Mpro complex with PM-2-020B, the DPP-4 complex with piperidine fused imidazopyridine 34, and the HIV-1 gp120 complex with JP-III-048. The DC-QAOA exhibits superior performance, providing more accurate and biologically relevant docking results, especially for larger molecular docking problems. Moreover, QAOA-based algorithms demonstrate enhanced hardware compatibility in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, indicating their potential for efficient implementation under practical docking scenarios. Our findings underscore quantum computing's potential in drug discovery and offer valuable insights for optimizing protein-ligand docking processes.

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@article{arxiv.2308.04098,
  title  = {Molecular docking via quantum approximate optimization algorithm},
  author = {Qi-Ming Ding and Yi-Ming Huang and Xiao Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.04098},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages, 17 figures, All comments are welcome