Aquafeed.com talked with POLARISqb, a company that is developing a feed additive that makes soybean meal digestible and nutritious for animal feed without relying on costly extraction methods.
POLARISqb is one of the finalists of the Soy Innovation Challenge, organized by the United Soybean Board and the Yield Lab Institute. The company is developing a feed additive that makes soybean meal digestible and nutritious for animal feed without relying on costly extraction methods.
POLARISqb is a three-year old company located in Durham, North Carolina with a backgrounding both technology and drug discovery, that started with the aim of designing novel drugs. "We use quantum computers, specifically quantum annealers, that let us look at very large numbers of molecules and find the best one,' said Maurice Benson, Principal Software Engineer at POLARISqb.
Two years ago, the company started thinking about how to apply this technology to other fields different from drug design, potentially peptides. "As we started seeing the different applications we could do with peptides, agriculture was one of the potential industries. We did some feasibility studies and we found we could also create novel peptides." Benson explained.
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