amPEPpy 1.0: a portable and accurate antimicrobial peptide prediction tool.

Lawrence, Travis J; Carper, Dana L; Spangler, Margaret K; Carrell, Alyssa A; Rush, Tomás A; Minter, Stephen J; Weston, David J; Labbé, Jessy L · Bioinformatics · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising alternative antimicrobial agents. Currently, however, portable, user-friendly and efficient methods for predicting AMP sequences from genome-scale data are not readily available. Here we present amPEPpy, an open-source, multi-threaded command-line application for predicting AMP sequences using a random forest classifier. amPEPpy is implemented in Python 3 and is freely available through GitHub (https://github.com/tlawrence3/amPEPpy). Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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