We have received feedback from Dr. Masahiro Kitabata, a Research Fellow at Advanced Materials Research Laboratories of Toray Industries, Inc., regarding the beta testing of QIDO.
He has provided the following comments on the platform's usefulness and future prospects from a research standpoint.
Evaluation Comments
Through the beta testing, we found that QIDO has strong potential to become a transformative platform for accelerating materials development using quantum chemical calculations. Particularly impressive was the intuitive UI. Reaction path searches are automatically executed simply by uploading chemical structures. As a result, it can be easily used even by experimental researchers. Transition state and pathway information crucial for synthesis research can be quickly obtained. This allows theoretical understanding to be incorporated more easily into daily operations in the field. At the same time, computational chemists can achieve more efficient analysis and verification.
In addition, integration with InQuanto and Quantinuum Nexus enables seamless combination of classical and quantum computing. This makes QIDO a unique product that shows promise for preliminary verification towards the practical application of future quantum computers. QIDO is expected to serve as a bridge connecting experimental and computational researchers, as well as classical and quantum computing. In doing so, it may be a powerful platform for driving forward the acceleration of materials development.
