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DNAproDB (https://dnaprodb.usc.edu/) is a database, visualization tool, and processing pipeline for analyzing structural features of protein-DNA interactions. Here, we present a substantially updated version of the database through additional structural annotations, search, and user interface functionalities. The update expands the number of pre-analyzed protein-DNA structures, which are automatically updated weekly. The analysis pipeline identifies water-mediated hydrogen bonds that are incorporated into the visualizations of protein-DNA complexes. Tertiary structure-aware nucleotide layouts are now available. New file formats and external database annotations are supported. The website has been redesigned, and interacting with graphs and data is more intuitive. We also present a statistical analysis on the updated collection of structures revealing salient patterns in protein-DNA interactions.

DNAproDB (https://dnaprodb.usc.edu) is a web-based database and structural analysis tool that offers a combination of data visualization, data processing and search functionality that improves the speed and ease with which researchers can analyze, access and visualize structural data of DNA-protein complexes. In this paper, we report significant improvements made to DNAproDB since its initial release. DNAproDB now supports any DNA secondary structure from typical B-form DNA to single-stranded DNA to G-quadruplexes. We have updated the structure of our data files to support complex DNA conformations, multiple DNA-protein complexes within a DNAproDB entry and model indexing for analysis of ensemble data. Support for chemically modified residues and nucleotides has been significantly improved along with the addition of new structural features, improved structural moiety assignment and use of more sequence-based annotations. We have redesigned our report pages and search forms to support these enhancements, and the DNAproDB website has been improved to be more responsive and user-friendly. DNAproDB is now integrated with the Nucleic Acid Database, and we have increased our coverage of available Protein Data Bank entries. Our database now contains 95% of all available DNA-protein complexes, making our tools for analysis of these structures accessible to a broad community.

Many biological processes are mediated by complex interactions between DNA and proteins. Transcription factors, various polymerases, nucleases and histones recognize and bind DNA with different levels of binding specificity. To understand the physical mechanisms that allow proteins to recognize DNA and achieve their biological functions, it is important to analyze structures of DNA-protein complexes in detail. DNAproDB is a web-based interactive tool designed to help researchers study these complexes. DNAproDB provides an automated structure-processing pipeline that extracts structural features from DNA-protein complexes. The extracted features are organized in structured data files, which are easily parsed with any programming language or viewed in a browser. We processed a large number of DNA-protein complexes retrieved from the Protein Data Bank and created the DNAproDB database to store this data. Users can search the database by combining features of the DNA, protein or DNA-protein interactions at the interface. Additionally, users can upload their own structures for processing privately and securely. DNAproDB provides several interactive and customizable tools for creating visualizations of the DNA-protein interface at different levels of abstraction that can be exported as high quality figures. All functionality is documented and freely accessible at http://dnaprodb.usc.edu.