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
Category: epidemiology
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
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
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
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
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
Combatting Antibiotic Resistance Using Surveillance – click on the image to watch the 10 minute video. More details here.
antibiotic resistance BDC bioinformatics databases epidemiology Galaxy genomics lab members presentations
The Inaugural Biomedical Discovery & Commercialization (BDC) Symposium
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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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
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
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
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,
“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.
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
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.