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Computational Prediction of Amino Acid Preferences of Potentially Multispecific Peptide-Binding Domains Involved in Protein-Protein Interactions
Published on: January 26, 2024
AMPA: an automated web server for prediction of protein antimicrobial regions
Marc Torrent1, Paolo Di Tommaso, David Pulido
1Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Spain.
Summary:
AMPA is a web application for assessing the antimicrobial domains of proteins, with a focus on the design on new antimicrobial drugs. The application provides fast discovery of antimicrobial patterns in proteins that can be used to develop new peptide-based drugs against pathogens. Results are shown in a user-friendly graphical interface and can be downloaded as raw data for later examination.
Availability:
AMPA is freely available on the web at http://tcoffee.crg.cat/apps/ampa. The source code is also available in the web.
Contact:
marc.torrent@upf.edu; david.andreu@upf.edu
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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