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Molecular docking is a critical computational method in drug discovery used to predict the binding conformation and orientation of a ligand within a protein's binding site. Mapping this challenge onto a graph-based problem, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Mathieu Garrigues , Victor Onofre , Wesley Coelho , S. Acheche

Molecular docking is an essential step in the drug discovery process involving the detection of three-dimensional poses of a ligand inside the active site of the protein. In this paper, we address the Molecular Docking search phase by…

Gaussian Boson Samplers are photonic quantum devices with the potential to perform tasks that are intractable for classical systems. As with other near-term quantum technologies, an outstanding challenge is to identify specific problems of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-29 Leonardo Banchi , Mark Fingerhuth , Tomas Babej , Christopher Ing , Juan Miguel Arrazola

Molecular docking is a critical process for drug discovery and challenging due to the complexity and size of biomolecular systems, where the optimal binding configuration of a drug to a target protein is determined. Hybrid classical-quantum…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Christos Papalitsas , Yanfei Guan , Shreyas Waghe , Athanasios Liakos , Ioannis Balatsos , Vassilios Pantazopoulos

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Qi-Ming Ding , Yi-Ming Huang , Xiao Yuan

Molecular docking (MD) is a crucial task in drug design, which predicts the position, orientation, and conformation of the ligand when bound to a target protein. It can be interpreted as a combinatorial optimization problem, where quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Yunting Li , Xiaopeng Cui , Zhaoping Xiong , Bowen Liu , Bi-Ying Wang , Runqiu Shu , Nan Qiao , Man-Hong Yung

Molecular docking, which aims to find the most stable interacting configuration of a set of molecules, is of critical importance to drug discovery. Although a considerable number of classical algorithms have been developed to carry out…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-21 Mohit Pandey , Tristan Zaborniak , Hans Melo , Alexey Galda , Vikram K. Mulligan

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for some independent set problems in graph theory, based on non-abelian adiabatic mixing. We illustrate the performance of our algorithm with analysis and numerical calculations for two different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Biao Wu , Hongye Yu , Frank Wilczek

Molecular docking is an important tool for structure-based drug design, accelerating the efficiency of drug development. Complex and dynamic binding processes between proteins and small molecules require searching and sampling over a wide…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Runqiu Shu , Bowen Liu , Zhaoping Xiong , Xiaopeng Cui , Yunting Li , Wei Cui , Man-Hong Yung , Nan Qiao

We propose a hybrid classical-quantum digitized-counterdiabatic algorithm to tackle the protein folding problem on a tetrahedral lattice. Digitized-counterdiabatic quantum computing is a paradigm developed to compress quantum algorithms via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Pranav Chandarana , Narendra N. Hegade , Iraitz Montalban , Enrique Solano , Xi Chen

Adiabatic quantum computing has evolved in recent years from a theoretical field into an immensely practical area, a change partially sparked by D-Wave System's quantum annealing hardware. These multimillion-dollar quantum annealers offer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Timothy D. Goodrich , Travis S. Humble , Blair D. Sullivan

Quantum adiabatic optimization seeks to solve combinatorial problems using quantum dynamics, requiring the Hamiltonian of the system to align with the problem of interest. However, these Hamiltonians are often incompatible with the native…

Quantum algorithms are prominent in the pursuit of achieving quantum advantage in various computational tasks. However, addressing challenges, such as limited qubit coherence and high error rate in near-term devices, requires extensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Julián Ferreiro-Vélez , Iñaki Iriarte-Zendoia , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Quantum computing has gained a lot of attention recently, and scientists have seen potential applications in this field using quantum computing for Cryptography and Communication to Machine Learning and Healthcare. Protein folding has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Hasan Mustafa , Sai Nandan Morapakula , Prateek Jain , Srinjoy Ganguly

Preparing the ground state of a Hamiltonian is a problem of great significance in physics with deep implications in the field of combinatorial optimization. The adiabatic algorithm is known to return the ground state for sufficiently long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Benjamin F. Schiffer , Jordi Tura , J. Ignacio Cirac

Molecular docking is a major element in drug discovery and design. It enables the prediction of ligand-protein interactions by simulating the binding of small molecules to proteins. Despite the availability of numerous docking algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-20 Yiliang Yuan , Mustafa Misir

Tackling molecular optimization problems using conventional computational methods is challenging, because the determination of the optimized configuration is known to be an NP-hard problem. Recently, there has been increasing interest in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-24 Eshan Joshi , Samuel Somuyiwa , Hossein Z. Jooya

Designing quantum algorithms with a speedup over their classical analogs is a central challenge in quantum information science. Motivated by recent experimental observations of a superlinear quantum speedup in solving the Maximum…

Molecular docking is an essential tool for drug design. It helps the scientist to rapidly know if two molecules, respectively called ligand and receptor, can be combined together to obtain a stable complex. We propose a new multi-objective…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-05 Jean-Charles Boisson , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi , Dragos Horvath

We propose a numerical approach to design highly efficient adiabatic schedules for analog quantum computing, focusing on the maximum-independent-set problem and neutral atom platforms. On the basis of a representative dataset of small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Sébastien Perseguers
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