“…Numerous deep learning-based methods have been developed for de novo drug design, including approaches based on reinforcement learning (Olivecrona et al, 2017;Zhou et al, 2019;You et al, 2018;Jin et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2021;Horwood & Noutahi, 2020;Gottipati et al, 2020;Neil et al, 2018) and variational autoencoders (Gómez-Bombarelli et al, 2018;Maus et al, 2022;Jin et al, 2018;Bradshaw et al, 2020). These approaches use several different ways to encode molecules into something that the model can learn, such as fingerprint-, string-and graph-based encodings.…”