Insider Brief
Researchers demonstrated a resource-efficient hybrid quantum-classical method for molecular docking on an IBM quantum processor.
The method represented 18- and 14-variable docking problems using six and five qubits, respectively.
The quantum hardware identified the same molecular contacts as classical calculations, although the small-scale tests didn’t demonstrate quantum advantage.
A team of Singapore-based researchers reports that a hybrid quantum-classical method could offer a new route to studying drug candidates using today’s Noisy Intermediate-Stage Quantum (NISQ) devices.
