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IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI — they used a quantum computer instead
Scientists used IBM's R2 Heron quantum processor to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence.
You may like Although it’s made up of only a single strand of amino acids, mRNA has a secondary protein structure consisting of a series of folds that provide a given molecule’s specific 3D shape. According to a new study published May 9 on the preprint arXiv database, algorithms capable of running on these classical architectures can process mRNA sequences with "hundreds or thousands of nucleotides," but only by excluding higher complexity features such as "pseudoknots." In the new preprint study, the team provisionally demonstrated the experimental paradigm’s effectiveness in running simulated instances with up to 156 qubits for mRNA sequences of up to 60 nucleotides.
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