By Sherry Dadgar
Publication Date: 2026-04-28 12:29:00
Decades after the human genome was first sequenced, scientists around the world are still working to understand it. Despite careful global efforts to link unusual variations in DNA sequences to human diseases, progress has been slow, largely due to limitations in scientific understanding and partly due to limitations in computer technologies.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to help scientists decipher the millions of genetic variations in different people’s genomes to find out which ones lead to disease and which ones don’t. However, to fully exploit the power of AI, scientists need to compare the genomes of thousands or tens of thousands of people. Not only does this task require a lot of computing effort, it is also error-prone and will take years to complete.
Quantum computing has the potential to facilitate this process. We are researchers with a long-standing interest in finding ways to use genetics…
