An ambitious project that brings together a new domain in science – pangenomics – with the emerging power of quantum computing has been awarded $3.5million. The researchers involved say it is an “incredibly exciting” prospect but admit that it is so cutting-edge they cannot know exactly where it will lead. Potential benefits, however, could include advances in personalised medicine and better tracking and management of pathogen outbreaks. Pangenomes are new representations of DNA sequences that capture genetic diversity in a population. Each pangenome is a collection of many different genome s…
