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This hybrid workflow demonstrates a significant leap toward practical quantum advantage in chemistry by achieving chemically accurate energy calculations (0.5 kcal/mol) on trapped-ion hardware. The results validate that combining classical pre-processing with quantum measurements can effectively model complex biological systems like cytochrome P450nor, surpassing standard classical methods for drug candidate ranking. This progress marks a critical step away from theoretical proofs of principle toward tangible applications in pharmaceutical research.

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Quantum QC Ware and IonQ reach 4% accuracy in drug-design workflow

Quantum ZeitgeistSeptember 1, 20262 min read

QC Ware & IonQ achieved 4% accuracy modeling a key enzyme, cytochrome P450nor, using a hybrid quantum-classical approach for drug discovery via Amazon Braket.

QC Ware and IonQ report achieving 0.5 kcal/mol accuracy in calculating electrostatic interaction energy, a result within the 1 kcal/mol threshold considered chemically accurate for enzyme modeling. The companies demonstrated this precision using a hybrid quantum-classical workflow on IonQ’s Forte hardware, modeling the heme active site of…

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