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Researchers from IBM and Moderna have successfully used a quantum simulation algorithm to predict the complex secondary structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA protein—the longest ever simulated on a quantum computer.
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a molecule that carries genetic information from DNA to ribosomes. It controls protein synthesis in cells and is used to create effective vaccines that promote a specific immune response.
It is widely believed that all the information needed to correctly form the three-dimensional structure of a protein is contained in its amino acid sequence or folding process.
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