I work in computational drug discovery. With current hardware, we are basically limited to simulating single proteins for microseconds of time, and even that re

I work in computational drug discovery. With current hardware, we are basically limited to simulating single proteins for microseconds of time, and even that requires a lot of simplifying assumptions. So we can only simulate a small part of any given process. We can't develop high confidence about a complex cascading process this way. Quantum computing would definitely help if we had it. And researchers are using deep learning in many parts of the process now.