DBAASP Website and Data Usage Policies and Disclaimers

Website Disclaimer

Data Disclaimers

DBAASP data is collected from patents and peer-reviewed articles containing potentially relevant AMP data. Every effort has been made to ensure that DBAASP data is consistent with the original sources. However, we do not guarantee the accuracy of the data or its suitability for any particular purpose.

External Links

Some DBAASP web pages may provide links to other websites for the convenience of users. DBAASP is not responsible for the availability or content of these sites and does not endorse or warrant the products, services, or information offered on these websites. Users cannot assume that external sites will comply with the same privacy policy as DBAASP. It is the user's responsibility to examine the copyright and licensing restrictions of linked pages and to secure all necessary permissions.

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Data Access Policy

DBAASP data is openly available and may be accessed, downloaded, copied, used, adapted, and redistributed without restriction. In return, users must acknowledge DBAASP as the source in publications, presentations, datasets, software, and other public materials that use DBAASP data or tools.

Attribution Requirement

When DBAASP data or tools are used, users must provide an appropriate public acknowledgement that identifies DBAASP as the source. This acknowledgement requirement applies whether the data is used in its original form or after modification, combination with other data, or redistribution.

Acknowledgement and Citation Guidelines

DBAASP encourages the use of its data and tools for research and educational purposes. We ask users to properly acknowledge DBAASP in any public material, including manuscripts, conference papers, presentations, datasets, or software that uses DBAASP data or analytical tools.

The following acknowledgement may be used:

"Data were obtained from the DBAASP (https://dbaasp.org) which is an open-access AMP data resource supported by I. Beritashvili Center of Experimental Biomedicine (IBCEB), Tbilisi, Georgia and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB) in Bethesda, MD. These data were collected and submitted by members of the DBAASP team."

Please also cite the following DBAASP publication where appropriate:

Pirtskhalava M, Amstrong AA, Grigolava M, Chubinidze M, Alimbarashvili E, Vishnepolsky B, Gabrielian A, Rosenthal A, Hurt DE, Tartakovsky M. DBAASP v3: database of antimicrobial/cytotoxic activity and structure of peptides as a resource for development of new therapeutics, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 49, Issue D1, 8 January 2021, Pages D288-D297, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa991

Privacy Policy

DBAASP provides this Web site as a public service. We do not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) about visitors to our Web sites. We do collect some data about user visits to help us better understand how the public uses the site and how to make it more helpful. The DBAASP does not collect information for commercial marketing or any commercial purposes.