Towards Quantum Computation for the Computational Biosciences

Presentation by Benjamin Cordier, OHSU

There has been a growth of interest in the application of quantum computation and quantum simulation to the many intractable computational problems in the biological sciences. While theoretical results imply the value of quantum information processing (QIP) to many of the challenging problems resident in this research domain, such as molecular ground state simulation, mutational signature inference, and phylogenetic tree inference, a framework to guide the realization of quantum proof of principle applications has yet to be clarified. In this talk, I will review some of the recent advances in the QIP field and discuss our work towards developing such a framework