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Hepatitis D virus genome successfully encoded on quantum computer for first time

A full genome has been loaded onto a quantum computer for the first time, opening an early-stage test of whether quantum computing can handle large-scale genomic analysis. A joint team from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Melbourne encoded the hepatitis D virus genome, about 1,700 base pairs, onto IBM's 156-qubit Heron processor. The work focuses on compressing genetic information into quantum states and is seen as a proof of concept.