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Deep learning has disrupted nearly every field of research, including those of direct importance to drug discovery, such as medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. This revolution has largely been attributed to the unprecedented advances in highly parallelizable graphics processing units (GPUs) and the development of GPU-enabled algorithms. In this Review, the authors present a comprehensive overview of historical trends and recent advances in GPU algorithms and discuss their immediate impact on the discovery of new drugs and drug targets. R is an increasingly preferred software environment for data analytics and statistical computing among scientists and practitioners. Packages markedly extend R's utility and ameliorate inefficient solutions to data science problems.