Researchers show the power of quantum computation in drug design
Gero, a biotech company focused on longevity and aging, has shown that quantum computing can be used for drug design. This holds great promise for the future. The study, published in Scientific Reports explains how a hybrid machine-learning quantum-classical model was used to interface classical and quantum computing devices, with the goal of creating novel chemical structures for possible drugs – an industry first.
This research paper comes in the wake recent advances from Gero. A story published in Popular Mechanics asserted that humans could stop, but not reverse, aging. Gero announced earlier this year a target-discovery deal with Pfizer. Gero’s technology platform for machine-learning is being used to find potential therapeutic targets in fibrotic disease using large-scale data from humans.
This new research line examined whether a hybrid AI system – a deep neural net working in conjunction commercially available quantum hardware – could suggest unique chemical structure that is synthetically possible and has drug-like characteristics.
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https://phys.org/news/2023-07-power-quantum-drug.html
