Publications by authors named "Trami Dang"
Methods Mol Biol
June 2022
Article Synopsis
- Animal venoms contain complex mixtures of bioactive compounds called toxins, which primarily consist of cysteine-rich peptide toxins that can interact with various molecular targets, presenting potential for therapeutic development.
- Advances in omics technologies like transcriptomics and proteomics allow researchers to discover more venom proteins, but identifying and characterizing these bioactive peptides is challenging due to their complex structures and sheer volume.
- A new automated bioinformatics pipeline has been created to rapidly identify and characterize novel venom peptides from RNA sequencing data specifically from terebrid snails, and it can potentially be adapted for use with other venomous organisms.
