Category Archives: Polaris News

POLARISqb Soy Challenge in Inside Quantum Technology
POLARISqb was recently the runner up in the Soy Innovation Challenge, and this news was covered by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry of Inside Quantum Technology: May 11, 2023 Polarisqb Uses Quantum Computing to Optimize Soymeal, Improving Food Security As around 345.2 million people worldwide are predicted to be food insecure this year, many scientists, businesses, and organizations…
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POLARISqb in AquaFeed Magazine

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 Featured in Aquafeed Magazine

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.

To read the full article, please see the story at Aquafeed.com.

POLARISqb Demonstrates Menu Optimization via Constrained Quadratic Model on D-Wave Annealing Quantum Computer
The scientists at POLARISqb designed and engineered the first drug discovery engine built for an annealing quantum computer. This amplified search power allows the company to investigate a virtual chemical space of up to 1023 molecules and to design a set of molecules that fit a particular binding pocket and have certain drug-like characteristicsThese drug-like characteristics…
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Work with D-Wave Cited as Changing Drug Discovery and Quantum Computing
Recently, POLARISqb has been in the news for the revolutionary work that we are doing in drug discovery. An integral part of that progress is our work with quantum providers like D-Wave Systems from Toronto, Canada. As this article from Inside Quantum Technology by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry details, the partnership between our company and D-Wave represents…
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