Hypothesis

A hypothesis-driven theoretical framework for a learnable geometric functional in mutation-conditioned ligand–receptor affinity prediction

September 30, 2025
Predicting ligand–receptor binding affinity remains a cornerstone of modern drug discovery, enabling the identification of potential therapeutic compounds with high potency and selectivity. We introduce a new, interpretable framework that decomposes the total affinity into a geometric component and an energetic correction. The geometric term is defined as a learnable functional over overlapping atomic density