Editorial: Recent advances in peptide informatics: challenges and opportunities.

Abstract

Peptide informatics is a rapidly growing field that is at the intersection of bioinformatics, chemistry, and biology. Peptides are short chains of amino acids that play important roles in a wide variety of biological processes, such as protein folding, signal transduction, and immune function. Peptide informatics is the use of computational methods to study peptides and their sequence, structure, function, and interactions. Recent advances in peptide informatics have led to a number of new discoveries and applications. For example, new methods have been developed to predict the structure of peptides, which can be used to design new drugs and therapies. New methods for identifying peptide-protein interactions have also been introduced, which can be used to understand the molecular basis of disease.