Abstract

A computerized database for synthetic antibiotic peptides, the SAPD, has been created and is available on the Internet at web address, http://oma.terkko.helsinki.fi:8080 / ∼SAPD. The SAPD is modelled on two pre-existing computer databases for naturally occurring peptide antibiotics, the Antimicrobial Sequences Database and the Peptaibol Database, and it will contain both chemical and biological information on all published synthetic antibiotic peptides.

Keywords: synthetic antibiotic peptides, Antimicrobial Sequences Database (AMSDb), Peptaibol Database, SWISS-PROT protein