Menten AI: Designing Peptide Therapeutics with Quantum Hardware | D-Wave Qubits 2021

Peptides are a class of mid-size molecules with huge therapeutic potential, but their precise design requires expensive simulations and large combinatorial optimization often beyond the reach of classical computation. Here Menten AI presents a quantum-classical hybrid system that enables molecular recognition of designed peptides and their therapeutic target.

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D-Wave Systems Inc. is a Canadian quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. D-Wave was the world's first company to sell computers to exploit quantum effects in their operation. D-Wave's early customers include Lockheed Martin, University of Southern California, Google/NASA and Los Alamos National Lab

In 2015, D-Wave's 2X Quantum Computer with more than 1,000 qubits was installed at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA Ames Research Center. They have subsequently shipped systems with 2,048 qubits. In 2019, D-Wave announced a 5000 qubit system available mid-2020, using their new Pegasus chip with 15 connections per qubit.[3][4] D-Wave does not implement a generic quantum computer; instead, their computers implement specialized quantum annealing.