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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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Welcome new M.Sc. student Mateusz Wlodarski!

September 8, 2022October 4, 2022 agmcarthur

The McArthur lab welcomes back past undergraduate student and now newly minted Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences M.Sc. student Mateusz Wlodarski! Mateusz will be working on

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Datasets for benchmarking antimicrobial resistance genes in bacterial metagenomic and whole genome sequencing

June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 agmcarthur

Raphenya et al. Scientific Data volume 9, Article number: 341 (2022). Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a key tool in identifying and characterising disease-associated bacteria

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Performance characteristics of next-generation sequencing for the detection of antimicrobial resistance determinants in Escherichia coli genomes and metagenomes

June 1, 2022June 2, 2022 agmcarthur

Rooney et al. 2022 Jun 1;e0002222. Short-read sequencing can provide detection of multiple genomic determinants of antimicrobial resistance from single bacterial genomes and metagenomic samples.

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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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Exploring the mobilome and resistome of Enterococcus faecium in a One Health context across two continents

April 13, 2022 agmcarthur

Sanderson et al. 2022. bioRxiv 10.1101/2022.04.11.487771. Enterococcus faecium is a ubiquitous opportunistic pathogen that is exhibiting increasing levels of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Many of the

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Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences Research Symposium (BBSRS) 2022!

March 2, 2022March 2, 2022 agmcarthur

Karyn Mukiri – Predicting the Total Resistome Mugdha Dave – Creation and standardization of automated bacterial pathogen genomic sequencing reporting through informatics

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Welcome Madeline McCarthy!

January 4, 2022 agmcarthur

The McArthur lab welcomes Madeline McCarthy, a recent MSc graduate of VIDO / USask, as she join us for her PhD studies in the McMaster

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