Physicist and code specialist Dr. Sandipan Mohanty has been working on molecular biology simulations for the world's fastest supercomputers for 20 years. Such simulations help to unravel the building blocks of life and provide new insights into cellular machinery.

Together with researchers at Sweden's Lund University, he has now gone one step further and taken the problem of protein folding to a quantum computer. D-Wave's quantum annealer JUPSI of the quantum computer user facility JUNIQ at Forschungszentrum Jülich has more than 5,000 qubits and is the first device of this size outside North America. In an interview, Sandipan Mohanty gives insight into the pioneering work.

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