Quantum network medicine: rethinking medicine with network science and quantum algorithms

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Scientific and technological advances in medicine and systems biology have unequivocally shown that health and disease must be viewed in the context of the interplay among multiple molecular and environmental factors.

• Understanding the effects of cellular interconnection on disease progression may lead to the identification of novel disease genes and pathways, and hence influence precision diagnostics and therapeutics.
• To accomplish this goal, the emerging field of network medicine applies network science approaches to investigate disease pathogenesis, integrating information from relevant Omics databases, including protein-protein interaction, correlation-based, gene regulatory, and Bayesian networks.
• However, this requires analysing and computing large amounts of data.