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We propose a framework based on Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) for generating plausible ligand binding poses within protein pockets, enabling efficient structure-based virtual screening. The method discretizes the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-29 Pei-Kun Yang

Protein--ligand docking is widely used in structure-based discovery, but routine studies often fail at the workflow level rather than at the scoring level. Receptor cleaning, ligand preparation, file conversion, box definition, run…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-24 Tieu-Long Phan , Lai Hoang Son Le , Thanh-An Pham , Nhu-Ngoc Nguyen Song , Tuyet-Minh Phan , Tuyen Ngoc Truong

We present QUBOLite, a Python package for the creation, manipulation, analysis, and solution of Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) instances. Built as a thin wrapper around NumPy arrays, QUBOLite combines efficient numerical…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sascha Mücke , Thore Gerlach , Nico Piatkowski , Lukas Theißinger

Powerful generative AI models of protein-ligand structure have recently been proposed, but few of these methods support both flexible protein-ligand docking and affinity estimation. Of those that do, none can directly model multiple binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alex Morehead , Jianlin Cheng

Ising machines are next-generation computers expected to efficiently sample near-optimal solutions of combinatorial optimization problems. Combinatorial optimization problems are modeled as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kentaro Ohno , Nozomu Togawa

The peptide-protein docking problem is an important problem in structural biology that facilitates rational and efficient drug design. In this work, we explore modeling and solving this problem with the quantum-amenable quadratic…

Determining the binding pose of a ligand to a protein, known as molecular docking, is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Generative approaches promise faster, improved, and more diverse pose sampling than physics-based methods, but are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Alvaro Prat , Leo Zhang , Charlotte M. Deane , Yee Whye Teh , Garrett M. Morris

There is growing interest in solving computer vision problems such as mesh or point set alignment using Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC). Unfortunately, modern experimental AQC devices such as D-Wave only support Quadratic Unconstrained…

Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) is recognized as a unifying framework for modeling a wide range of problems. Problems can be solved with commercial solvers customized for solving QUBO and since QUBO have degree two, it is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Amit Verma , Mark Lewis , Gary Kochenberger

With the applications of quantum computing becoming more and more widespread, finding ways that allow end users without experience in the field to apply quantum computers to solve their individual problems is becoming a crucial task.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Damian Rovara , Nils Quetschlich , Robert Wille

Protein structure prediction is a core challenge in computational biology, particularly for fragments within ligand-binding regions, where accurate modeling is still difficult. Quantum computing offers a novel first-principles modeling…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuqi Zhang , Yuxin Yang , Cheng-Chang Lu , Weiwen Jiang , Feixiong Cheng , Bo Fang , Qiang Guan

We are interested in benchmarking both quantum annealing and classical algorithms for minimizing Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems. Such problems are NP-hard in general, implying that the exact minima of randomly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Georg Hahn , Elijah Pelofske , Hristo N. Djidjev

We present PyQUBO, an open-source, Python library for constructing quadratic unconstrained binary optimizations (QUBOs) from the objective functions and the constraints of optimization problems. PyQUBO enables users to prepare QUBOs or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Mashiyat Zaman , Kotaro Tanahashi , Shu Tanaka

We present QUBO.jl, an end-to-end Julia package for working with QUBO (Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization) instances. This tool aims to convert a broad range of JuMP problems for straightforward application in many physics and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Pedro Maciel Xavier , Pedro Ripper , Tiago Andrade , Joaquim Dias Garcia , Nelson Maculan , David E. Bernal Neira

Predicting the docking between proteins and ligands is a crucial and challenging task for drug discovery. However, traditional docking methods mainly rely on scoring functions, and deep learning-based docking approaches usually neglect the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Yiqiang Yi , Xu Wan , Yatao Bian , Le Ou-Yang , Peilin Zhao

Posiform planting is a method for constructing QUBO problems with a single unique planted solution that can be tailored to arbitrary connectivity graphs. In this study we investigate making posiform planted QUBOs computationally harder by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo Djidjev

Protein complex formation is a central problem in biology, being involved in most of the cell's processes, and essential for applications, e.g. drug design or protein engineering. We tackle rigid body protein-protein docking, i.e.,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Xinyuan Huang , Charlotte Bunne , Yatao Bian , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola , Andreas Krause

Here we present a novel method for the analysis of transport processes in proteins and its implementation called CaverDock. Our method is based on a modified molecular docking algorithm. It iteratively places the ligand along the access…

Today, hardware constraints are an important limitation on quantum adiabatic optimization algorithms. Firstly, computational problems must be formulated as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) in the presence of noisy coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Andrew Lucas

Quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) has become the standard format for optimization using quantum computers, i.e., for both the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) and quantum annealing (QA). We present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Thomas Gabor , Marian Lingsch Rosenfeld , Sebastian Feld , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien
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