Tulane Researchers Develop PepDraw Software to Advance Peptide Studies
When Tulane biochemistry researchers couldn’t find a tool to easily draw peptide chemical structures, they built their own. Postdoctoral fellow Thomas Freeman and graduate student Hussain Badani co-created PepDraw, a free, Java-based software program that lets users quickly draw two-dimensional images of amino acid sequences and predict some chemical properties. Designed to help both researchers and professors, PepDraw streamlines peptide study and drug design, and it can be installed easily on Windows or Mac. The program is available for download from the lab of William Wimley, PhD.
