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Major Update of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database

February 2, 2018December 30, 2020 agmcarthur

The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database has been updated, http://card.mcmaster.ca This February 2018 release is our largest to date and includes new data types, a new

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Welcome Alexandra Florescu!

January 3, 2018December 30, 2020 agmcarthur

4th year Bachelor of Health Sciences student Alexandra Florescu has joined us for her Biochem 3A03 (Biochemical Research Practice) course. Alexandra will be collaborating with

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Completed 4th Year Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization Theses!

April 4, 2017December 30, 2020 agmcarthur

Congratulations to this year’s crop of BiomedDC 4A15 thesis students for 8 month research projects well done! From left to right: Suman Virdee – Developing a

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Government of Canada invests in new genomics “big data” research projects aimed at real-world challenges

September 13, 2016December 30, 2020 agmcarthur

A cross-national research consortia co-led by McMaster’s Andrew McArthur is receiving two of 16 federal grants to further develop a big data solution to the

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2nd Conference Rapid Microbial NGS and Bioinformatics: Translation Into Practice

June 14, 2016December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

McArthur, A.G., B. Jia, A.R. Raphenya, P. Guo, K. Tsang, B. Dave, B. Alcock, B. Lago, N. Waglechner, & G.D. Wright. 2016. The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance

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BDC Engage 2016!

April 6, 2016December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Congratulations to Kara Tsang and Zachary Lin on completion of their Biomedical Discovery and Commercialization (BDC) 4A15 thesis research! Both Kara & Zachary presented their research

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Big Ideas Better Cities – Health and Social Innovation through Big Data – Full Video

January 12, 2016December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Combatting Antibiotic Resistance Using Surveillance – click on the image to watch the 10 minute video. More details here.

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The Inaugural Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization (BDC) Symposium

November 26, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Zachary Lin – Adapting Galaxy bioinformatics to outbreak-associated Clostridium difficile The completion of the human genome project in 2001 sparked the beginning of a sequencing revolution

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IIDR Trainee Day 2015!

October 25, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

http://traineeday2015.mcmasteriidr.ca

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Clinical utilization of genomics data produced by the international Pseudomonas aeruginosa consortium

October 21, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Authors: Freschi et al. Front Microbiol. 2015 Sep 29;6:1036. The International Pseudomonas aeruginosa Consortium is sequencing over 1000 genomes and building an analysis pipeline for the study

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Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)

September 18, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Wright, G.D. & A.G. McArthur. 2015. A bioinformatic platform for the characterization of antibiotic resistance in bacterial genomes and metagenomes. Presentation at the 2015 Interscience

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Bioinformatics of antimicrobial resistance in the age of molecular epidemiology

July 31, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Authors: McArthur AG, Wright GD. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2015 Jul 31;27:45-50. Antimicrobial resistance is a global health challenge and has an evolutionary trajectory ranging from

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4th ASM Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance in Zoonotic Bacteria and Foodborne Pathogens

May 7, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

McArthur, A.G., Waglechner, N., Nizam, F., Pereira, S.K., Jia, B., Sardar, D., Westman, E.L., Pawlowski, A.C., Johnson, T., Lo, R., Courtot, M., Brinkman, F.S., Williams,

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Internet of DNA

April 23, 2015December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

“A global network of millions of genomes could be medicine’s next great advance.” See the full article at the MIT Tech Review: Internet of DNA.

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American Society of Microbiology 114th Annual Meeting

May 16, 2014December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Williams, L.E., A.G. McArthur, N. Waglechner, F. Nizam, P.T. Desai, M. McClelland, G.M. Weinstock, J.B. Barrett, L.M. Hiott, C.R. Jackson, & J.G. Frye. 2014. Genetic

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Molecular typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Yaoundé reveals RIF resistance markers, clonal relatedness and mutation patterns

October 24, 2012December 31, 2020 agmcarthur

Authors: PV Tedom, R Kieft, AG McArthur, W Mbacham, D Mark Welch, SL Hajduk, VPK Titanji Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, 2012, 2(5): 342-347.

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