Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences

Computing plays a critical role in the biological sciences but faces increasing challenges of scale and complexity. Quantum computing, a computational paradigm exploiting the unique properties of quantum mechanical analogs of classical bits, seeks to address many of these challenges. We discuss the...

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Published inNature methods Vol. 18; no. 7; pp. 701 - 709
Main Authors Emani, Prashant S., Warrell, Jonathan, Anticevic, Alan, Bekiranov, Stefan, Gandal, Michael, McConnell, Michael J., Sapiro, Guillermo, Aspuru-Guzik, Alán, Baker, Justin T., Bastiani, Matteo, Murray, John D., Sotiropoulos, Stamatios N., Taylor, Jacob, Senthil, Geetha, Lehner, Thomas, Gerstein, Mark B., Harrow, Aram W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Nature Publishing Group US 01.07.2021
Nature Publishing Group
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631/114/1305
631/114/2397
631/1647/767
631/208/1515
631/378/116
Algorithms
Big Data
Bioinformatics
Biological computing
Biological Microscopy
Biological research
Biological Science Disciplines
Biological Techniques
Biology, Experimental
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology
Comment
Computer applications
Computers
Computing Methodologies
Genetics
Genomics
Humans
Life Sciences
Methods
Nervous System Diseases - etiology
Neuroimaging - methods
Neurosciences
Proteomics
Quantum computing
Quantum mechanics
Quantum Theory
Sequence Analysis
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Summary:Computing plays a critical role in the biological sciences but faces increasing challenges of scale and complexity. Quantum computing, a computational paradigm exploiting the unique properties of quantum mechanical analogs of classical bits, seeks to address many of these challenges. We discuss the potential for quantum computing to aid in the merging of insights across different areas of biological sciences.
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All authors contributed to discussions on the design of the manuscript. G. Senthil and T.L. led the NIMH workshop and subsequent discussions. P.S.E., J.W., A.A., S.B., M.G., M.J.M., J.T.B., M.B.G. and A.W.H wrote the manuscript. P.S.E., J.W., A.A., S.B., M.G., M.J.M., G. Sapiro, A.A.-G., J.D.M., J.T.B., M.B., S.N.S., G. Senthil, T.L., M.B.G. and A.W.H edited the manuscript. A.W.H. and S.B. contributed to the “Classical versus quantum circuits: state of the art” section. P.S.E., J.W., S.B., M.G., M.J.M., M.B.G. contributed content to the “Sequence analysis,” “Genetics,” “Functional genomics” and “Integration across disciplines” subsections, and A.A., G. Sapiro, J.T.B., J.W. and J.M. to the “Mapping neurobehavioral variation via neuroimaging and deep phenotyping” subsection. S.B. contributed to the Epilogue section.
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ISSN:1548-7091
1548-7105
DOI:10.1038/s41592-020-01004-3