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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…

Predicting the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a protein from its primary sequence of amino acids is known as the protein folding (PF) problem. Due to the central role of proteins' 3D structures in chemistry, biology and medicine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-18 Anton Robert , Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos , Stefan Woerner , Ivano Tavernelli

Protein folding is one of the age-old biological problems that refers to the mechanism of understanding and predicting how a protein's linear sequence of amino acids folds into its specific three dimensional structure.This structure is…

Protein structure prediction is a challenging and unsolved problem in computer science. Proteins are the sequence of amino acids connected together by single peptide bond. The combinations of the twenty primary amino acids are the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Mahmood A. Rashid , Firas Khatib , Abdul Sattar

Quantum heuristics have shown promise in solving various optimization problems, including lattice protein folding. Equally relevant is the inverse problem, protein design, where one seeks sequences that fold to a given target structure. The…

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

Protein folding is a central challenge in computational biology, with important applications in molecular biology, drug discovery and catalyst design. As a hard combinatorial optimisation problem, it has been studied as a potential target…

Protein folding, which dictates the protein structure from its amino acid sequence, is half a century old problem of biology. The function of the protein correlates with its structure, emphasizing the need of understanding protein folding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Jaya Vasavi P , Soham Bopardikar , Avinash D , Ashwini K , Kalyan Dasgupta , Sanjib Senapati

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…

Protein folding processes are a vital aspect of molecular biology that is hard to simulate with conventional computers. Quantum algorithms have been proven superior for certain problems and may help tackle this complex life science…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Hanna Linn , Isak Brundin , Laura García-Álvarez , Göran Johansson

The protein design problem involves finding polypeptide sequences folding into a given threedimensional structure. Its rigorous algorithmic solution is computationally demanding, involving a nested search in sequence and structure spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Veronica Panizza , Philipp Hauke , Cristian Micheletti , Pietro Faccioli

Quantum annealing has shown promise for finding solutions to difficult optimization problems, including protein folding. Recently, we used the D-Wave Advantage quantum annealer to explore the folding problem in a coarse-grained lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Anders Irbäck , Lucas Knuthson , Sandipan Mohanty , Carsten Peterson

In this work, we present the first implementation of the face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice model for protein structure prediction with a quantum algorithm. Our motivation to encode the FCC lattice stems from our observation that the FCC…

Background: Understanding electronic interactions in protein active sites is fundamental to drug discovery and enzyme engineering, but remains computationally challenging due to exponential scaling of quantum mechanical calculations.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-05 Biraja Ghoshal

Gate-based universal quantum computers form a rapidly evolving field of quantum computing hardware technology. In previous work, we presented a quantum algorithm for lattice protein folding on a cubic lattice, tailored for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Mark Fingerhuth , Tomáš Babej , Christopher Ing

Background: Solving nuclear many-body problems with an ab initio approach is widely recognized as a computationally challenging problem. Quantum computers offer a promising path to address this challenge. There are urgent needs to develop…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Weijie Du , James P. Vary , Xingbo Zhao , Wei Zuo

Lattice protein folding models are a cornerstone of computational biophysics. Although these models are a coarse grained representation, they provide useful insight into the energy landscape of natural proteins. Finding low-energy…

Modelling and predicting protein configurations is crucial for advancing drug discovery, enabling the design of treatments for life-threatening diseases. A critical aspect of this challenge is rotamer optimisation - the determination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Anastasia Agathangelou , Dilhan Manawadu , Ivano Tavernelli

Variational quantum algorithms provide a direct, physics-based approach to protein structure prediction, but their accuracy is limited by the coarse resolution of the energy landscapes generated on current noisy devices. We propose a hybrid…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yuqi Zhang , Yuxin Yang , Feixiong Chen , Cheng-Chang Lu , Nima Saeidi , Samuel L. Volchenboum , Junhan Zhao , Siwei Chen , Weiwen Jiang , Qiang Guan

We explore the potential application of quantum annealing to address the protein structure problem. To this end, we compare several proposed ab initio protein folding models for quantum computers and analyze their scaling and performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Timon Scheiber , Matthias Heller , Andreas Giebel
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