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Motivation: Ab initio protein docking represents a major challenge for optimizing a noisy and costly "black box"-like function in a high-dimensional space. Despite progress in this field, there is no docking method available for rigorous…

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Molecular computing promises massive parallelization to explore solution spaces, but so far practical implementations remain limited due to off-target binding and exponential proliferation of competing structures. Here, we investigate the…

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The exponential growth of the power of modern digital computers is based upon the miniaturisation of vast nanoscale arrays of electronic switches, but this will be eventually constrained by fabrication limits and power dissipation. Chemical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Abhishek Sharma , Marcus Tze-Kiat Ng , Juan Manuel Parrilla Gutierrez , Yibin Jiang , Leroy Cronin

Probabilistic computers built from p-bits offer a promising path for combinatorial optimization, but the dense connectivity required by real-world problems scales poorly in hardware. Here, we address this through graph sparsification with…

Backpropagation (BP) is the standard algorithm for training the deep neural networks that power modern artificial intelligence including large language models. However, BP is energy inefficient and unlikely to be implemented by the brain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Francesco Innocenti

Ongoing semiconductor scaling challenges and the rise of neuromorphic computing have sparked interest in exploring novel computing schemes to achieve higher power efficiency and computational capabilities. Probabilistic computing is one…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xuejian Zhang , John Arnesh Divakaruni Daniel , Neil Dilley , Zhihong Chen , Joerg Appenzeller

Drug discovery is the most expensive, time demanding and challenging project in biopharmaceutical companies which aims at the identification and optimization of lead compounds from large-sized chemical libraries. The lead compounds should…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Natarajan Arul Murugan , Artur Podobas , Davide Gadioli , Emanuele Vitali , Gianluca Palermo , Stefano Markidis

Probabilistic computing excels in approximating combinatorial problems and modelling uncertainty. However, using conventional deterministic hardware for probabilistic models is challenging: (pseudo) random number generation introduces…

Quantum computing holds promise for revolutionizing computational chemistry simulations, particularly in drug discovery. However, current quantum hardware is limited by noise and scale, necessitating bridging technologies. This study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Marek Kowalik , Ellen Michael , Peter Pogány , Phalgun Lolur

The search for meaningful structure in biological data has relied on cutting-edge advances in computational technology and data science methods. However, challenges arise as we push the limits of scale and complexity in biological problems.…

Molecular biology and biochemistry interpret microscopic processes in the living world in terms of molecular structures and their interactions, which are quantum mechanical by their very nature. Whereas the theoretical foundations of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Alberto Baiardi , Matthias Christandl , Markus Reiher

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…

Predicting a ligand's bound pose to a target protein is a key component of early-stage computational drug discovery. Recent developments in machine learning methods have focused on improving pose quality at the cost of model runtime. For…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-23 Wojtek Treyde , Seohyun Chris Kim , Nazim Bouatta , Mohammed AlQuraishi

SkeleDock is a scaffold docking algorithm which uses the structure of a protein-ligand complex as a template to model the binding mode of a chemically similar system. This algorithm was evaluated in the D3R Grand Challenge 4 pose prediction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-13 Alejandro Varela-Rial , Maciej Majewski , Alberto Cuzzolin , Gerard Martínez-Rosell , Gianni De Fabritiis

The common feature of nearly all logic and memory devices is that they make use of stable units to represent 0's and 1's. A completely different paradigm is based on three-terminal stochastic units which could be called "p-bits", where the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Ahmed Zeeshan Pervaiz , Lakshmi Anirudh Ghantasala , Kerem Yunus Camsari , Supriyo Datta

This research paper is proposing the idea of pseudo code representation to molecular programming used in designing molecular electronics devices. Already the schematic representation of logical gates like AND, OR, NOT etc.from molecular…

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Quantum computing, with its superior computational capabilities compared to classical approaches, holds the potential to revolutionize numerous scientific domains, including pharmaceuticals. However, the application of quantum computing for…

Identifying potential drug targets using metabolic modeling requires integrating multiple modeling methods and heterogenous biological datasets, which can be challenging without sophisticated tools. We developed COMO, a user-friendly…

Atomic level qubits in silicon are attractive candidates for large-scale quantum computing, however, their quantum properties and controllability are sensitive to details such as the number of donor atoms comprising a qubit and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Muhammad Usman , Yi Z. Wong , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

Discovering causal relationships from observational data is a crucial problem and it has applications in many research areas. The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art constraint based method for causal discovery. However, runtime of the PC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Thuc Duy Le , Tao Hoang , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Huawen Liu