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  • Biotechnology
  • Quantum Physics
  • Genomics

Background:

  • Personalized medicine requires rapid, low-cost sequencing of genomes (DNA), transcriptomes (RNA), and proteomes.
  • Current sequencing technologies face challenges in speed and cost for global scalability.
  • Quantum mechanical phenomena offer potential for atomic-level biological information decoding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review methods utilizing quantum tunnelling for biological sequencing.
  • To highlight the theoretical underpinnings and experimental progress of quantum tunnelling sequencing.
  • To explore the potential benefits and challenges of practical quantum sequencing devices.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on quantum tunnelling for sequencing.
  • Analysis of theoretical quantum mechanical principles applied to nucleobase and amino acid differentiation.
  • Examination of experimental demonstrations of quantum tunnelling in biological sequence analysis.

Main Results:

  • Quantum tunnelling can differentiate single nucleobases and amino acids in short sequences.
  • Theoretical frameworks for quantum sequencing have been established.
  • Experimental capabilities are emerging, demonstrating proof-of-concept for quantum sequencing.

Conclusions:

  • Quantum tunnelling presents a promising avenue for high-throughput, low-cost sequencing.
  • Further technical development is required to overcome challenges for practical quantum sequencing devices.
  • This technology has the potential to revolutionize personalized medicine and biological research.