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Simultaneous detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes with the open source, cloud-based, CZ ID platform

May 8, 2025 agmcarthur

Lu et al. Genome Med. 2025 May 6;17(1):46. Background: Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens represent urgent threats to human health, and their surveillance is of paramount

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IIDR Trainee Day 2024!

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 agmcarthur

A great day of posters and presentations by the trainees of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute of Infectious Disease Research! Nilasha Mohan, Undergraduate student. Developing

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The Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal & Duotang: open resources for SARS-CoV-2 viral sequences and genomic epidemiology

October 20, 2024October 20, 2024 agmcarthur

Gill et al. 2024. The Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal & Duotang: open resources for SARS-CoV-2 viral sequences and genomic epidemiology. Microb Genom. 2024 Oct;10(10):001293. The

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CSM, EDAR7, & more!

July 23, 2024July 24, 2024 agmcarthur

  CSM Mukiri, K.M., B.P. Alcock, & A.G. McArthur. 2024. Increasing the predictive accuracy of the Resistance Gene Identifier by abandoning sole reliance on bitscore.

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Pre-Prints 2024!

May 10, 2024June 3, 2024 agmcarthur

Gill, E.E., B. Jia, C.L. Murall, R. Poujol, M.Z. Anwar, N.S. John, J. Richardsson, A. Hobb, A.S. Olabode, A. Lepsa, A.T. Duggan, A.D. Tyler, A.

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Presentations at the AMMI-CACMID 2024 Conference

April 13, 2024May 10, 2024 agmcarthur

Alcock, B.P., E.A. Bordeleau, & A.G McArthur. 2024. Improving aminoglycoside resistance surveillance and stewardship efforts through nomenclature harmonization with the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database. Presentation

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Antimicrobial Resistance – Genomes, Big Data and Emerging Technologies – Wellcome Trust, UK

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 agmcarthur

Mukiri, K.M., B.P. Alcock, & A.G. McArthur. 2024. Increasing the predictive accuracy of the Resistance Gene Identifier by abandoning sole reliance on bitscore. Ta, T.E.,

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A standardized nomenclature for resistance-modifying agents in the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 agmcarthur

Keaton W Smith, Brian P Alcock, Shawn French, Maya A Farha, Amogelang R Raphenya, Eric D Brown, & Andrew G McArthur. Microbiol Spectrum. 2023 Nov

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IIDR Trainee Day 2023

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 agmcarthur

COLIN BRUCE – Investigating Fibre Degradation in the Infant Gut Microbiota ; DIRK HACKENBERGER – Was World War 2 Foundational to the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis?

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Congratulations Amogelang Raphenya on the completion of your M.Sc.!

June 16, 2023June 16, 2023 agmcarthur

While many know of Amogelang (Amos) Raphenya as the Lead CARD Developer and a local, national, and international resource for genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance,

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Happy 10th Anniversary CARD!

June 11, 2023June 12, 2023 agmcarthur

Today the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database turns 10 years old! While it started a few years before this in the laboratory of Dr. Gerry Wright,

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Chan Zuckerberg ID and the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database collaborate to add Resistome prediction to the CZ ID platform

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

CARD and CZ ID are thrilled to launch a new CZ ID module that allows researchers to detect and analyze antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes in

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Biocuration 2023

April 24, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

Alcock, B.P., A.R. Raphenya, A. Edalatmand, & A.G. McArthur. 2023. The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database – curating the global resistome. Oral presentation at the 16th

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CARD*Shark: automated prioritization of literature curation for the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 agmcarthur

Arman Edalatmand & Andrew G McArthur. 2023. Database, doi: 10.1093/database/baad023. Scientific literature is published at a rate that makes manual data extraction a highly time-consuming

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CBW & VTEC 2023

April 18, 2023May 6, 2023 agmcarthur

They’re back! Thanks to Karyn Mukiri, Jalees Nasir, and Madeline McCarthy for serving as Teaching Assistants for the re-booted Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop in Infectious Disease

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Team Meta-Model Volunteers

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 agmcarthur

The McArthur Lab welcomes Team Meta-Model, a volunteer curation team led by former BioPharm Co-Op Keaton Smith, working on curating and upgrading the Comprehensive Antibiotic

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IIDR Trainee Day 2022!

November 16, 2022December 9, 2022 agmcarthur

KARYN MUKIRI – Predicting the total resistome KEATON SMITH – Advancements in curation of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database JALEES NASIR – Viral fishing expedition:

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CARD 2023: expanded curation, support for machine learning, and resistome prediction at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

October 20, 2022 agmcarthur

Alcock et al. 2023. Nucleic Acids Res Oct 20, 2022:gkac920. (online ahead of print) The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD; card.mcmaster.ca) combines the Antibiotic Resistance

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Enabling genomic island prediction and comparison in multiple genomes to investigate bacterial evolution and outbreaks

May 19, 2022 agmcarthur

Bertelli et al. Microb Genom. 2022 May;8(5). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000818. Outbreaks of virulent and/or drug-resistant bacteria have a significant impact on human health and major economic

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Farewell William!

August 31, 2021August 24, 2021 agmcarthur

Today we say goodbye to William Huynh, who first joined us as an undergraduate thesis student and then stayed on to work as the Comprehensive

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