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The browsing facility allows user to explore the data for bioactive peptides by major fields including (i) classification; (ii) organisms; and (iii) structural motif.

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Quick Search

Quick search enables users to search the database by the following fields: ID, name, UniProt ID, PDB ID and sequence. ID is the unique code to identify each database entry, which begins with the characters “BP” followed by 4 digits. Name denotes the name of the bioactive peptide. Sequence is the amino acid sequence of the query peptide.

Advanced Search

Advanced search allows a combination of five fields including name, organism, family, sequence and length via using logical conditions like AND/OR. Name denotes the name of the bioactive peptide. Organism is the scientific name of the organism producing the peptide, which is available at browse_organism. Family is the peptide classification information extracted from the “SIMILARITY” line of UniProt. Sequence is the amino acid sequence of the query peptide. Length is the peptide sequence length. The following example shows how to extract bioactive peptides in organism Homo sapiens with the name defensin.