modlAMP: Python for antimicrobial peptides

Summary: We have implemented the molecular design laboratory's antimicrobial peptides package (modlAMP), a Python‐based software package for the design, classification and visual representation of peptide data. modlAMP offers functions for molecular descriptor calculation and the retrieval of amino acid sequences from public or local sequence databases, and provides instant access to precompiled datasets for machine learning. The package also contains methods for the analysis and representation of circular dichroism spectra. Availability and Implementation: The modlAMP Python package is available under the BSD license from URL http://doi.org/10.5905/ethz‐1007‐72 or via pip from the Python Package Index (PyPI). Contact: gisbert.schneider@pharma.ethz.ch Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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