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docs/plans/void-featurization.md collects the design discussion on describing pockets and active sites with DBSTEP: how a void gets a centre, a boundary and an orientation from the existing occupancy grid; three families of vector/tensor representations (aligned free-space tensors with residue-class channels, rotation-invariant spherical-harmonic and radial × angular power spectra plus Zernike invariants, and an interpretable slice matrix along the mouth axis); design constraints (normalisation, grid resolution vs harmonic degree, ensembles, hydrogens, waters); where each piece would live in the code with no new dependencies; a validation plan built on synthetic cavities with exact answers, rotation tests and the bound-ligand fit check; and a suggested order of work.

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    • Added a design proposal for describing free space in protein pockets, including candidate representations, measurements, validation cases, and implementation steps.
    • Updated the repository overview to include planned pocket and void featurization alongside protein and trajectory plans.

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The repository plan index now identifies void and pocket featurization plans. A new design document outlines proposed featurization methods, outputs, module and CLI changes, validation cases, and an implementation sequence. No code implementation is included.

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Void featurization planning

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Plan scope and repository index
docs/plans/void-featurization.md, CLAUDE.md
Adds a design plan covering proposed void representations, methods, outputs, module and CLI options, validation, and staged implementation. Updates the repository structure description to include the plan.

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The design note conflates connected-pocket volume with the %V_bur complement, which could misdirect later feature work. Correct the wording before relying on the plan; this PR introduces no runtime behavior change.

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In `@docs/plans/void-featurization.md`:
- Around line 44-45: Update the documentation describing the flood-fill result
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behind residues are excluded. Free volume is the complement of what `--exclude-self --vbur`
reports today.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/bin/bash
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printf '%s\n' '--- Dbstep Vbur call path ---'
rg -n -C 10 'occupied_direct|buried_vol|return_mask|volume|exclude_self' dbstep/Dbstep.py dbstep/selection.py
printf '%s\n' '--- documented semantics ---'
sed -n '90,110p' README.md
sed -n '105,125p' docs/plans/2.0-proteins-and-trajectories.md
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Separate connected-pocket volume from the %V_bur complement.

The flood fill excludes empty voxels that are disconnected from the centre. --exclude-self --vbur counts all occupied points in the sphere and defines free volume as tot_vol - occ_vol, so disconnected empty voxels remain included. Describe the flood-fill result as connected-pocket volume, or remove the connectivity restriction if equivalence is required.

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-- **Sphere-bounded (consistent with %V_bur):** empty voxels within radius R that are connected
+- **Sphere-bounded connected-pocket volume:** empty voxels within radius R that are connected
  to the centre by a flood fill through empty space (`scipy.ndimage.label`). Disconnected gaps
- behind residues are excluded. Free volume is the complement of what `--exclude-self --vbur`
- reports today.
+ behind residues are excluded. This is distinct from the complement of what
+ `--exclude-self --vbur` reports today, which includes all unoccupied voxels in the sphere.
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behind residues are excluded. Free volume is the complement of what `--exclude-self --vbur`
reports today.
behind residues are excluded. This is distinct from the complement of what
`--exclude-self --vbur` reports today, which includes all unoccupied voxels in the sphere.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@docs/plans/void-featurization.md` around lines 44 - 45, Update the
documentation describing the flood-fill result to call it sphere-bounded
connected-pocket volume, and clarify that it differs from the `--exclude-self
--vbur` complement, which includes all unoccupied voxels in the sphere.

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