Epock: rapid analysis of protein pocket dynamics.

Bioinformatics

Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS, UPR9080, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75005 Paris, France and Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biochemistry Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.

Published: May 2015

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: benoist.laurent@gmail.com or baaden@smplinux.de

Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4410650PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu822DOI Listing

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