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SUMMARY:The WD40-repeat proteins are a large family of scaffold molecules that assemble complexes in various cellular processes. Obtaining their structures is the key to understanding their interaction details. We present WDSPdb 2.0, a significantly updated resource providing accurately predicted secondary and tertiary structures and featured sites annotations. Based on an optimized pipeline, WDSPdb 2.0 contains about 600 thousand entries, an increase of 10-fold, and integrates more than 37,000 variants from sources of ClinVar, Cosmic, 1000 Genomes, ExAC, IntOGen, cBioPotral, and IntAct. In addition, the web site is largely improved for visualization, exploring, and data downloading. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION:http://www.wdspdb.com/wdsp/ or http://wu.scbb.pkusz.edu.cn/wdsp/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

WD40-repeat proteins, as one of the largest protein families, often serve as platforms to assemble functional complexes through the hotspot residues on their domain surfaces, and thus play vital roles in many biological processes. Consequently, it is highly required for researchers who study WD40 proteins and protein-protein interactions to obtain structural information of WD40 domains. Systematic identification of WD40-repeat proteins, including prediction of their secondary structures, tertiary structures and potential hotspot residues responsible for protein-protein interactions, may constitute a valuable resource upon this request. To achieve this goal, we developed a specialized database WDSPdb (http://wu.scbb.pkusz.edu.cn/wdsp/) to provide these details of WD40-repeat proteins based on our recently published method WDSP. The WDSPdb contains 63,211 WD40-repeat proteins identified from 3383 species, including most well-known model organisms. To better serve the community, we implemented a user-friendly interactive web interface to browse, search and download the secondary structures, 3D structure models and potential hotspot residues provided by WDSPdb. © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.