Steth Lloyd • Professor of mechanical engineering and physics
Research and development is so fundamental to pharmaceutical companies that they spend an average of 15 percent of their sales on R&D6. The molecular formations required in drug development are so small that quantum phenomena affect them, so quantum computing could be incredibly useful in the Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) process.
It is anticipated that quantum computing will be able to predict and simulate the structure, properties, and behaviour (or reactivity) of these molecules more effectively than conventional computing can.3 Using conventional computers for increasing the accuracy of the molecular simulations has an exponential increase in computational resources; the emergence of quantum computers has the potential to remedy the fact it is expensive for a conventional computer to try to simulate quantum systems; such as molecules.
Pharma is already making use of machine learning to speed up and improve the drug development process, but considering machine learning will take a great leap forward when quantum computers can be used for it, pharma is positioned to be one of the prime beneficiaries of the advent of quantum computers.
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