MDR (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, President Yuichiro Minato) announced on March 31, 2020, Coronavirus-related research using the latest hybrid quantum computer Leap2 provided by D-Wave Systems Inc. (Headquarters: British Columbia), Canada. At the request of the project, I decided to participate.
MDR will utilize D-Wave's programming method for quantum computers, QUBO, to carry out research with external medical experts, mainly in combinatorial optimization problems and machine learning. For details, see the release of D-Wave below.