BAP	Bioactive Peptide
AMP	Antimicrobial Peptide
APD3	Antimicrobial Peptide Database 3
AMR	Antibiotic Resistance
WHO	World Health Organization
MERS	Middle East respiratory syndrome
SARS	Severe acute respiratory syndrome
AVP	Antiviral peptides
AFP	Antifungal peptides
SPPS	Solid-phase Peptide Synthesis
HBTU	O-benzotriazole-N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-uronium-hexafluoro-phosphate
HATU	O-(7-azabenzotriazol-1-yl)-N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate
DIC	N,N′-diisopropylcarbodiimide
CCK	Cyclic Cystine Knot
DMF	Dimethylformamide
UAE	Ultrasound-assisted extraction
PEF	Pulsed electric fields
HHP	High hydrostatic pressure
AI	Artificial Intelligence
ML	Machine Learning
GST	Glutathione S-transferase
MBP	Maltose-binding protein
GRAS	Generally recognized as safe
PG	Phosphatidylglycerol
CL	Cardiolipin
PS	Phosphatidylserine
LPS	Lipopolysaccharides
HSPG	Heparan sulfate proteoglycan
HCMV	Human cytomegaloviruses
MCMV	Murine cytomegaloviruses
DHFR	Dihydrofolate reductase
TCA	Tricarboxylic acid
SQR	Succinate-coenzyme Q reductase
ROS	Reactive oxygen species
HSV-1	Simplex virus type 1
HDPs	Host defense peptides
LBP	Binding protein
FDA	Food and Drug Administration
IV	Intravenous injections
IM	Intramuscular injections
SC	Subcutaneous injections
CS/SA	Chitosan/sodium alginate
QSAR	Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationship
CNNs	Convolutional Neural Networks
DNNs	Deep Neural Networks
RNNs	Recurrent Neural Networks
VAEs	Variational Autoencoders
GANs	Generative Adversarial Networks
MRSA	Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
DL	Deep learning
SVM	Support vector machines
AIR	Ambiguous interaction restraints (AIRs).