Related Databases & Prediction Websites

Related Databases & Prediction Websites

1. PubMed, Swiss-Prot and PDB


URL Tool Description Country
PubMed
National Library of Medicine Resource for publications in biological and biomedical sciences
USA

UniProt
UniPro Knowledgebase
Europe

Google Scholar
WWW-based Literature Search
USA

PDB
The RCSB Protein Data Bank
USA


2. Databases for antimicrobial peptides (AMPs)

Website
Database Description Country Year Published
Peptaibols
A collection of peptaibols
England 2003,2004
APD
The founding antimicrobial peptide database for anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antibiofilm, antiparasitic, antidiabetic, wound healing peptides and beyond
USA 2004,2009,2016,2020,2022,2025
DAMPD (formerly ANTIMIC) Dragon database for antimicrobial sequences South Africa/Saudi Arabia 2004,2012
Cybase
The database of cyclic proteins
Australia 2006,2008
Defensins Defensins knowledgebase Singapore 2007
BACTIBASE
A data repository of bacteriocins
Canada/Tunisie 2007,2010
PhytAMP
Plant AMPs
Canada/Tunisie 2009
CAMP
A collection of peptides including mainly patented and predicted peptides without activity data
India 2010,2014,2016,2023
YADAMP
Yet another database of AMPs
Italy 2012
DADP
Database of amphibian defense peptides
Croatia 2012
THIOBASE
Database of bacterial thiopeptides (containing macrocyclic core)
China 2012
EnzyBase
Database of enzybiotics (lysins, autolysins, lysozymes, and large bacteriocins)
China 2012
LAMP
A database linking other AMP databases
China 2013,2020
HIPdb
A database for HIV inhibiting peptides
India 2013
MilkAMP
A database for milk AMPs
Canada 2014
Hemolytik
Hemolytic peptides
India 2014,2026
ParaPep
A database for antiparasitic sequences
India 2014
CancerPPD/AntiCP 2.0
A database for anticancer peptides and proteins
India 2014,2021
DBAASP
Database of largely synthetic peptides
Georgia 2014,2016,2021
BaAMPs
Biofilm-active AMPs database
Italy 2015
ANTISTAPHYBASE
A database for anti-Staphylococcal peptides and essential oils
France/Tunisia/Canada/USA 2016
SATPdb
Database of therapeutic peptides
India 2016
DRAMP
Data Repository of mainly synthetic antimicrobial peptides
China 2016, 2019, 2022
InverPep
Invertebrate AMPs extracted from APD
Colombia 2017
ARA-PEPs
largest repository of plant peptides encoded by sORFs
Belgium 2017
MBPDB
milk bioactive peptide database
Denmark 2017
AntiTbPdb
Anti-TB Peptides
India 2018
LABiocin
Bacteriocins from Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB)
Lebanon/France/Morocco 2019
PlantAFP
Plant antifungal peptides (AFPs)
India/Czech 2019
dbAMP
A merged resource for mainly synthetic peptides
Taiwan/China 2019,2022,2025
ADAPTABLE
Web platform for merged AMP sequences
France 2019
StarPepWeb
A web site for merged bioactive peptides, including AMP sequences
Ecuador/Portugal/Mexico 2019,2025
FoldamerDB
AMP-mimicking peptidic foldamers
Hungary 2020
ACD
Antimicrobial chemotherapeutics database
India 2020
AntiCP 2.0
Anticancer peptides V2
India 2020
FermFooDb
Bioactive peptides from fermented foods
India 2021
B-AMP
ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE REPOSITORY FOR BIOFILMS
India/UK/USA 2021
Peptipedia
A merged peptide sequence database, inlcuding AMPs
Chile/Germany/France 2021,2024
SuPepMem
MD simulations of Innate immune system Peptides
Spain/Portugal 2022
ACovPepDB
Anti-coronavirus peptides
China 2022
ApInAPDB
Apoptosis-inducing anticancer peptides
Iran 2022
AMPDB v1
Anti-Microbial Peptide Database version 1
india 2023
DRAVP
Antiviral Peptides and Proteins
China 2023
GtoPdb
The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY
UK/France 2023
aSynPEP-DB
Biogenic peptides for inhibiting alpha-synuclein aggregation
Spain/Germany/Poland 2023
ESKtides
ESKAPE phage-derived antimicrobial peptides
China 2024
AbAMPdb
AMPs against A. baumannii
India 2024
AVR/I/SSAPDB
AMPs against VRSA, VISA, and VSSA
India 2025
TAMRSA
Anti-MRSA resource, including essential oils
India 2025
IAMPDB
Insect-derived AMPs
India 2025
ABPDB
A database of antibacterial peptides
China 2025
AntiProtoZ
An assemblage of antiprotozoal peptides
India 2025



3. Selected AMP prediction tools


Server
Description Country Year
APD peptide predictor
Database-based classification and prediction of AMPs
USA
2004

BAGLE
A web-based bacteriocin genome mining tool
The Netherlands
2006

AntiBP
SVM, QM, or ANN prediction of AMPs
India
2007

AMPer
An automated discovery tool for gene-coded antimicrobial peptides
Canada
2007

CAMP Prediction
SVM, RF, ANN, or DA prediction of AMPs
India
2010

antiSMASH
A web-based thiopeptide genome mining tool
The Netherlands
2011

AMPA
Antimicrobial sequence scanning system to predict potential AMP region from proteins
Spain
2012

AVPpred
SVM Prediction of antiviral peptides
India
2012

iAMP-2L
Two-layer Prediction of AMPs
China/USA
2013

CyPred
Prediction of circular proteins
Canada
2014

dPABBs
Prediction of anti-biofilm peptides
India
2016

modlAMP
Python for antimicrobial peptides
Switzerland 2017
HemoPred
Prediciton of hemolytic toxicity
Thailand/Myanmar/Sweden 2017
AMP_Scanner
AMP scanner (>10 aa)
USA
2018

HAPPENN
Prediciton of hemolytic toxicity
Ireland 2020
AMP parameter calculations and similarity using APD3



Main references for this webpage:

Wang, G. et al. (2026) APD6. The database links, originally established for the APD in 2003, have been extensively expanded and updated in 2025 for the APD6.

Wang, G., ed. (2017) Antimicrobial Peptides: Discovery, Design and Novel Therapeutic Strategies (2nd version), CABI, England.

Wang, G. (2015) Database resources dedicated to antimicrobial peptides. In "Antimicrobial Resistance and Food Safety: Methods and Techniques" (Chen, C.-Y., Yan, X., and Jackson, C.R., eds.), Academic Press, Boston, pp. 365-384.

Wang, G. (2007) Tool developments for structure-function studies of host defense peptides. Protein Pept. Lett. 14, 57-69 (containing a list of existing 8 AMP databases).
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