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Peptide Research Resources & Databases

Official and public sources for research, clinical trials and drug rules.

Primary sources come first: peer-reviewed literature, trial registries and regulator databases.

This section collects primary and authoritative sources. It includes literature indexes (PubMed, PubMed Central, Europe PMC, Cochrane), clinical trial registries (ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO ICTRP, the EU register), regulator databases (Drugs@FDA, EMA), and molecular databases for peptides, proteins and compounds. Most are free and run by public institutions.

We prefer original sources over summaries, and no listing is sponsored. Link status was last checked on 2026-10-16. To analyse a sequence you found in these databases, use the sequence analysis tools. For published purity and identity reports on samples, see third-party testing labs and public test databases.

Inclusion is not an endorsement. Listings are informational only; see our disclaimer.

For research and general information only. Not medical advice or dosing guidance. Many peptides are not approved for human use. Talk to a licensed healthcare professional before making any health decision. Read the full disclaimer.

All research resources (27)

PubMed

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

NLM index of biomedical literature.

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Europe PMC

europepmc.org

Life-science literature database.

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Cochrane Library

cochranelibrary.com

Systematic reviews and controlled-trial register.

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EU CTIS (Clinical Trials in the EU)

euclinicaltrials.eu

Official EU portal for clinical trial applications and results under the Clinical Trials Regulation; successor to the EU Clinical Trials Register for new trials.

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MedlinePlus

medlineplus.gov

NLM consumer health and drug information.

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Drugs@FDA

accessdata.fda.gov

FDA-approved drug database.

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UniProt

uniprot.org

Protein sequence and function database.

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RCSB PDB

rcsb.org

Experimental 3D macromolecular structures.

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APD6

aps.unmc.edu

Antimicrobial peptide database.

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DBAASP

dbaasp.org

Curated antimicrobial peptide activity/structure database.

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DRAMP

dramp.cpu-bioinfor.org

Open antimicrobial peptide repository (CC BY 4.0).

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PeptideAtlas

peptideatlas.org

Mass-spec proteomics peptide compendium.

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PRIDE

ebi.ac.uk

Proteomics data repository.

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SATPdb

webs.iiitd.edu.in

Structurally annotated therapeutic peptides.

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THPdb

webs.iiitd.edu.in

FDA-approved therapeutic peptides and proteins.

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PubChem

pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

NIH chemical compound database.

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ChEMBL

ebi.ac.uk

Bioactive molecule database.

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DrugBank

go.drugbank.com

Drug and target knowledge base.

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DailyMed

dailymed.nlm.nih.gov

The National Library of Medicine's database of the current drug labeling that companies submit to the FDA, including prescribing information and Drug Facts. Labels can be searched and downloaded as HTML, PDF or XML.

Note: NLM does not review labels before publishing them, and labels in use may differ from the most recent FDA-approved version.

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Peptipedia v2.0

app.peptipedia.cl

An academic peptide sequence database from Universidad de Magallanes (Chile) that brings together about 4 million sequences from 76 public sources. It offers activity annotations, BLAST search and machine-learning activity predictions.

Note: Most activity labels are machine-learning predictions, and the data was last updated in March 2024.

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