{"id":2701,"date":"2025-07-18T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:58:13","slug":"moderna-and-ibm-use-quantum-computing-to-model-mrna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2701\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderna and IBM use quantum computing to model mRNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-body_post-body__paragraph__SfRzV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/case-studies\/moderna\" class=\"post-body_post-body__link__FaJhG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A new case study<\/a> explores how IBM Quantum\u00ae and Moderna recently demonstrated the use of quantum simulation to predict the secondary protein structure of a 60 nucleotide-long mRNA sequence, the longest nucleotide folding pattern ever simulated on a quantum computer. Understanding how proteins fold from a given nucleotide sequence is crucial for creating effective mRNA vaccines. Using 80 qubits of an IBM Quantum Heron chip, the team employed CVaR-based VQA\u2014a quantum optimization algorithm modeled after financial risk assessment techniques\u2014to achieve the largest demonstration of this algorithm\u2019s utility to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-body_post-body__paragraph__SfRzV\">This study is a powerful example of the progress the quantum community is making toward quantum advantage \u2014 the point at which quantum computers are shown to be more efficient, more accurate, or cheaper than classical computers for a particular task. As we explore different applications, one use-case at a time, IBM Quantum partners and clients are taking essential steps in our journey of bringing useful quantum computing to the world. Additional examples of this work can be found on our case studies page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/quantum\/case-studies\/\" class=\"post-body_post-body__link__FaJhG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new case study explores how IBM Quantum\u00ae and Moderna recently demonstrated the use of quantum simulation to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-2701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}