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Nevertheless, experimental approaches for AMP identification still demand substantial allocation of human resources and material inputs. Alternatively, computing approaches can assist researchers effectively and promptly predict AMPs. In this study, we present a novel AMP predictor called iAMP-Attenpred. As far as we know, this is the first work that not only employs the popular BERT model in the field of natural language processing (NLP) for AMPs feature encoding, but also utilizes the idea of combining multiple models to discover AMPs. Firstly, we treat each amino acid from preprocessed AMPs and non-AMP sequences as a word, and then input it into BERT pre-training model for feature extraction. Moreover, the features obtained from BERT method are fed to a composite model composed of one-dimensional CNN, BiLSTM and attention mechanism for better discriminating features. Finally, a flatten layer and various fully connected layers are utilized for the final classification of AMPs. Experimental results reveal that, compared with the existing predictors, our iAMP-Attenpred predictor achieves better performance indicators, such as accuracy, precision and so on. 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