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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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SARS-CoV-2 Illumina GeNome Assembly Line (SIGNAL) update

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

The SARS-CoV-2 Illumina GeNome Assembly Line (SIGNAL) has been updated to version 1.6.2, with an important hotfix to address software version incompatibility for rules using

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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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Congratulations Ph.D. student Jalees Nasir!

February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 agmcarthur

Congratulations Jalees Nasir on being awarded the Dr. Jordon Page Harshman Bursary! The Dr. Jordan Page Harsham Bursary was established in 2011 by the Harshman

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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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Resistome Gene Identifier (RGI) version 6.0.0

September 12, 2022May 25, 2023 agmcarthur

RGI version 6.0.0 – Major release, with parameter and reference data loading changes that may impact scripts. Please see updated README. Added an option (–keep)

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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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