Quantum Genomics
We develop quantum algorithms and quantum-inspired methods to solve the hardest computational problems in genomics.
- Result The complete hepatitis delta virus genome loaded onto quantum hardware, with the University of Melbourne. Publication in preparation. Coverage →
- Hardware Methods validated on IBM, Quantinuum and IonQ devices. How we validate →
- Team A team based in Oxford, Cambridge and Kyiv. Who we are →
- Open research Check our publications. Publications →
Research
Research strands
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Pangenome-guided sequence assembly
Genome assembly reformulated as graph-traversal optimisation and solved with iterative QAOA.
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Phylogeny
Hybrid quantum and classical pre-processing with a QAOA solver for the maximum weighted clique problem.
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MPS-based genome encoding
Exact, information-conserving encoding of whole genomes as quantum states.
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ML-based DNA encoding
A correlation-preserving encoding of DNA, and RotorMap for mapping long, noisy reads.
Result
A complete genome on quantum hardware
The complete hepatitis delta virus genome, 1,614 bases, has been encoded and loaded onto NISQ hardware as a single quantum state, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne. It is the first time a whole genome has been loaded onto a quantum computer, and at least an order of magnitude larger than previous attempts. Publication in preparation.
People
Founders
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Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Dr Sergii Strelchuk
Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Led the Quantum Pangenomics team that achieved the first loading of a complete genome onto a quantum computer.
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Co-founder and Adviser
Dr James McCafferty
Former Chief Information Officer, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Over thirty years of experience in IT systems, bioinformatics and digital transformation.
Team
- Dr Danylo Yakymenko Kyiv Academic University
- Dr Alina Frolova Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Kyiv
- Orson Ye University of Cambridge
Advisers
- Professor Richard Durbin FRS Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge