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DBAASP: database of antimicrobial activity and structure of peptides

Giorgi Gogoladze1, Maia Grigolava, Boris Vishnepolsky

  • 1Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Ivane Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine, Tbilisi, Georgia.

FEMS Microbiology Letters
|June 4, 2014
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antimicrobial activityantimicrobial peptidedatabasehaemolytic/cytotoxic activity

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