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The present study describes the in silico model developed for predicting and designing anticancer peptides (ACPs). ACPs residue composition analysis show the preference of A, F, K, L and W. Positional preference analysis revealed that residues A, F and K are favored at N-terminus and residues L and K are preferred at C-terminus. Motif analysis revealed the presence of motifs like LAKLA, AKLAK, FAKL and LAKL in ACPs. Machine learning models were developed using various input features and implementing different machine learning classifiers on two datasets main and alternate dataset. In the case of main dataset, dipeptide composition based ETree classifier model achieved maximum Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.51 and 0.83 area under receiver operating characteristics (AUROC) on the training dataset. In the case of alternate dataset, amino acid composition based ETree classifier performed best and achieved the highest MCC of 0.80 and AUROC of 0.97 on the training dataset. Five-fold cross-validation technique was implemented for model training and testing, and their performance was also evaluated on the validation dataset. Best models were implemented in the webserver AntiCP 2.0, which is freely available at https:\/\/webs.iiitd.edu.in\/raghava\/anticp2\/. The webserver is compatible with multiple screens such as iPhone, iPad, laptop and android phones. 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