“…In the interest of the reader, we also provide links to the various methods’ publicly available source code or webservers. The use of ML (more recently DL) methods is not limited solely to SBDD, and they have also been applied to all other areas of the drug discovery pipeline such as LBDD (Bahi and Batouche, 2018 ), lead optimization (de Souza Neto et al, 2020 ), and assessment of absorption (Shin et al, 2018 ), metabolism (Wang et al, 2020 ; Litsa et al, 2021 ), binding kinetics (De Benedetti and Fanelli, 2018 ; Mardt et al, 2018 ; Gao et al, 2019 ; Nunes-Alves et al, 2020 ; Feizpour et al, 2021 ; Obeid et al, 2021 ; Hoffmann et al, 2022 ), efficacy (Lin et al, 2018 ; Benning et al, 2020 ; Li et al, 2021 a ; Zhu et al, 2021 ) and toxicity properties (Ferreira and Andricopulo, 2019 ; Liu et al, 2019 ; Shi et al, 2019 ; Cáceres et al, 2020 ; Feinberg et al, 2020 ). While these studies are not covered in this review, interested readers are encouraged to review these recent works as well.…”