Epock: rapid analysis of protein pocket dynamics

SUMMARY The volume of an internal protein pocket is fundamental to ligand accessibility. Few programs that compute such volumes manage dynamic data from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Limited performance often prohibits analysis of large datasets. We present Epock, an efficient command-line tool that calculates pocket volumes from MD trajectories. A plugin for the VMD program provides a graphical user interface to facilitate input creation, run Epock and analyse the results. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Epock C++ source code, Python analysis scripts, VMD Tcl plugin, documentation and installation instructions are freely available at http://epock.bitbucket.org. CONTACT [email protected] or [email protected] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.