AmpClass: an Antimicrobial Peptide Predictor Based on Supervised Machine Learning

An Acad Bras Cienc. 2024 Oct 4;96(4):e20230756. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765202420230756. eCollection 2024.

Abstract

In the last decades, antibiotic resistance has been considered a severe problem worldwide. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules that have shown potential for the development of new drugs against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Nowadays, medicinal drug researchers use supervised learning methods to screen new peptides with antimicrobial potency to save time and resources. In this work, we consolidate a database with 15945 AMPs and 12535 non-AMPs taken as the base to train a pool of supervised learning models to recognize peptides with antimicrobial activity. Results show that the proposed tool (AmpClass) outperforms classical state-of-the-art prediction models and achieves similar results compared with deep learning models.

MeSH terms

  • Antimicrobial Peptides* / chemistry
  • Antimicrobial Peptides* / pharmacology
  • Supervised Machine Learning*

Substances

  • Antimicrobial Peptides