Quantum Machine Learning for Multi-omics Analysis (ISMB 2025)#

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ISMB/ECCB 2025 Tutorial

Hands-on introduction to quantum machine learning (QML) for multi-omics data using QBioCode.

Overview#

This tutorial introduced:

  • Foundations of quantum computing and QML

  • Benchmarking quantum vs classical ML models

  • Understanding data complexity in biological datasets

  • Practical pipelines using QBioCode tools

Materials#

Agenda#

Format

Expand each session to access description, notebooks, and background material.

Session I — Foundations#

1. Introduction to Quantum Computing

Overview of quantum computing concepts and applications in computational biology.

Materials - 📄 Slides: TBD - 📘 Background: TBD

2. Quantum Machine Learning Basics

Introduction to QML frameworks and their application to classification problems.

Materials - 📄 Slides:

Session II — Data & Benchmarking#

1. Artificial Data Generation

Generate synthetic datasets with controlled complexity for benchmarking ML models.

Materials - 💻 Notebook: https://ibm.github.io/QBioCode/tutorials/Artificial_data_generation/example_data_generation.html

Session III — Model Selection & Meta-learning#

Session IV — Quantum-enhanced Pipelines#

1. Quantum Projection Learning (QPL)

Apply quantum feature maps to enhance classical ML performance.

Materials - 💻 Tutorial: https://ibm.github.io/QBioCode/tutorials/Quantum_Projection_Learning/QPL_example.html

Session V — Wrap-up & Discussion#

1. Discussion and Q&A

Open discussion on limitations, best practices, and future directions.

Audience#

  • Computational biologists

  • Bioinformaticians

  • Data scientists

Interested in:

  • Quantum computing

  • Machine learning for omics data

Reproducibility#

Run all materials locally:

git clone https://github.com/IBM/QBioCode.git
cd QBioCode
pip install -e .