In bioengineering:
https://medium.com/neodotlife/quantum-computing-for-protein-folding-custom-biology-4ceeebb94a5b
*In recent months, software engineers in my lab have been getting ready,
retooling our protein-design software to run on quantum processors. Instead
of going on random walks, we hope to zero in on new strings of amino acids
that fold up into new proteins with bespoke properties.*
There are two separate things:
(A) waiting for quantum computers to run modeling programs on (simulation)
(B) using the inherent quantum mechanics of biomolecules to make new
biological things
(synthetic biology, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13232-z
etc.)
It seem likely (A) is pretty hopeless. (Conventional supercomputers will
have to do.)
@philipthrift
On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 1:06:01 PM UTC-5 Brent wrote:
> I thought the big application of QC after encryption, was going to be
> protein folding and similar biomolecular interactions.
>
> Brent
>
> On 7/7/2020 4:56 AM, Philip Thrift wrote:
>
>
> Dr. B may still be right though.
>
> 30 years from now quantum computers (as promoted in 2020) will still have
> no impact on practical computing applications. Maybe in cryptography, or
> maybe not.
>
> Though quantum aspects in materials science could turn out to be useful,
> so its impact on computing will be of a peripheral nature (in sensors,
> etc.).
>
> @philipthrift
>
> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 at 5:59:54 AM UTC-5 johnk...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:44 AM Bruno Marchal <mar...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
>>
>> > *If we can factorise a number sensibly bigger than 15 in my lifetime,
>>> I will be impressed*
>>
>>
>> Back in 2017 the number 291,311 was factored by a quantum computer:
>>
>> The experimental factorization of 291311
>> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08061.pdf>
>>
>> John K Clark
>>
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