occurrence of pathogens that are tolerant or resistant to conventional antibiotics. Since
naturally occurring AMPs could serve as templates for the development of new anti-
infectious agents to which pathogens are not resistant, a resource that contains relevant
information on AMP is of great interest. To that extent, we developed the Dragon
Antimicrobial Peptide Database (DAMPD, http://apps. sanbi. ac. za/dampd) that contains …