Mining Amphibian and Insect Transcriptomes for Antimicrobial Peptide Sequences with rAMPage

• Main Authors: Diana Lin (Author), Darcy Sutherland (Author), Sambina Islam Aninta (Author), Nathan Louie (Author), Ka Ming Nip (Author), Chenkai Li (Author), Anat Yanai (Author), Lauren Coombe (Author), René L. Warren (Author), Caren C. Helbing (Author), Linda M. N. Hoang (Author), Inanc Birol (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis increasing in prevalence every day. To combat this crisis, alternative antimicrobial therapeutics are urgently needed. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), a family of short defense proteins, are produced naturally by all organisms and hold great potential a...