Extropic presents first pharmaceutical application for thermodynamic computing hardware with codon optimization
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Andraž Jelinčič · Ross C. Walker
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This paper from Extropic Corp. presents the first concrete pharmaceutical application mapped to thermodynamic hardware, focusing on energy-efficient codon optimization. It argues that thermodynamic computing—which harnesses physical thermal fluctuations as a computational resource rather than suppressing them—offers orders-of-magnitude energy savings for probabilistic and combinatorial tasks, with pharmaceutical R&D being a natural application domain due to its heavy reliance on computational optimization and sampling.
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Twitter / XExtropic presents first pharmaceutical application for thermodynamic computing hardware with codon optimizationdocs.thrml.aiKey quotes
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Thermodynamic computing, which harnesses physical thermal fluctuations as a computational resource rather than suppressing them, offers orders-of-magnitude energy savings for probabilistic and combinatorial tasks.
Here we present what is, to our knowledge, the first concrete pharmaceutical application mapped to thermodynamic hardware with energy estimates.
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