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Accurate prediction of mRNA secondary structure is critical for understanding gene expression, translation efficiency, and advancing mRNA-based therapeutics. However, the combinatorial complexity of possible foldings, especially in long…

It is the first step for understanding how RNA structure folds from base sequences that to know how its secondary structure is formed. Traditional energy-based algorithms are short of precision, particularly for non-nested sequences, while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Ji Jiang , Qipeng Yan , Ye Li , Min Lu , Ziwei Cui , Menghan Dou , Qingchun Wang , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

Co-optimizing mRNA sequences for both codon optimality and secondary structure is crucial for producing stable and efficacious mRNA therapeutics. Codon optimization, which adjusts nucleotide sequences to enhance translational efficiency,…

Optimizing the mRNA codon has an essential impact on gene expression for a specific target protein. It is an NP-hard problem; thus, exact solutions to such optimization problems become computationally intractable for realistic problem sizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Hongfeng Zhang , Aritra Sarkar , Koen Bertels

RNAs play crucial and versatile roles in biological processes. Computational prediction approaches can help to understand RNA structures and their stabilizing factors, thus providing information on their functions, and facilitating the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Bin Huang , Yuanyang Du , Shuai Zhang , Wenfei Li , Jun Wang , Jian Zhang

Secondary structure plays an important role in determining the function of non-coding RNAs. Hence, identifying RNA secondary structures is of great value to research. Computational prediction is a mainstream approach for predicting RNA…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 Qi Zhao , Zheng Zhao , Xiaoya Fan , Zhengwei Yuan , Qian Mao , Yudong Yao

Predicting the secondary structure of RNA is a core challenge in computational biology, essential for understanding molecular function and designing novel therapeutics. The field has evolved from foundational but accuracy-limited…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-20 Giuseppe Sacco , Giovanni Bussi , Guido Sanguinetti

Simulating response properties of molecules is crucial for interpreting experimental spectroscopies and accelerating materials design. However, it remains a long-standing computational challenge for electronic structure methods on classical…

Accurate prediction of protein active-site structures remains a central challenge in structural biology, particularly for short and flexible peptide fragments where conventional and simulation-based methods often fail. Here, we present a…

Recent studies to solve nuclear structure problems using quantum computers rely on a quantum algorithm known as Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE). In this study, we calculate the correlation energy in Helium-6 using VQE, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Ching-Hwa Wee , Meng-Hock Koh , Yung Szen Yap

Applications such as simulating complicated quantum systems or solving large-scale linear algebra problems are very challenging for classical computers due to the extremely high computational cost. Quantum computers promise a solution,…

The study and prediction of chemical reactivity is one of the most important application areas of molecular quantum chemistry. Large-scale, fully error-tolerant quantum computers could provide exact or near-exact solutions to the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Michael Kühn , Sebastian Zanker , Peter Deglmann , Michael Marthaler , Horst Weiß

Recent technological advances may lead to the development of small scale quantum computers capable of solving problems that cannot be tackled with classical computers. A limited number of algorithms has been proposed and their relevance to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Dries Sels , Hesam Dashti , Samia Mora , Olga Demler , Eugene Demler

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

RNA function crucially depends on its structure. Thermodynamic models currently used for secondary structure prediction rely on computing the partition function of folding ensembles, and can thus estimate minimum free-energy structures and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-26 Nicola Calonaci , Alisha Jones , Francesca Cuturello , Michael Sattler , Giovanni Bussi

Quantum mechanics has introduced a new theoretical framework for the study of molecules, enabling the prediction of properties and dynamics through the solution of the Schr\"odinger equation applied to these systems. However, solving this…

Due to the hierarchical organization of RNA structures and their pivotal roles in fulfilling RNA functions, the formation of RNA secondary structure critically influences many biological processes and has thus been a crucial research topic.…

The computation of electronic structure properties at the quantum level is a crucial aspect of modern physics research. However, conventional methods can be computationally demanding for larger, more complex systems. To address this issue,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Nouhaila Innan , Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Mohamed Bennai

Despite the recent advancements by deep learning methods such as AlphaFold2, \textit{in silico} protein structure prediction remains a challenging problem in biomedical research. With the rapid evolution of quantum computing, it is natural…

The Human Genome Project has led to an exponential increase in data related to the sequence, structure, and function of biomolecules. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary research field that primarily uses computational methods to analyze…

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