Waglechner N, McArthur AG, Wright GD. Nat Microbiol. 2019 Aug 12. [Epub ahead of print] Glycopeptide antibiotics are produced by Actinobacteria through biosynthetic gene clusters
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MacData Summer School 2019
Dr. McArthur and PhD student Kara Tsang taught together at the 2019 MacData Institute Summer School, with Dr. McArthur reviewing biocuration and bioinformatics for genomic

Recent Updates to the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database has been updated, http://card.mcmaster.ca CARD Curation: Addition of HERA, TRU, & ACI beta-lactamases, sul4, and new quinolone efflux pumps. Antibiotic

Major Update of the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
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

CARD 2017: expansion and model-centric curation of the comprehensive antibiotic resistance database.
Jia B, Raphenya AR, Alcock B, Waglechner N, Guo P, Tsang KK, Lago BA, Dave BM, Pereira S, Sharma AN, Doshi S, Courtot M, Lo

Ni X, Davis JH, Jain N, Razi A, Benlekbir S, McArthur AG, Rubinstein JL, Britton RA, Williamson JR, Ortega J. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 Sep

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

Read more at http://techonomy.com/2016/06/the-superbugs-are-coming-data-science-can-help/

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

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Dr. McArthur gave a MacTalk at McMaster’s Big Ideas Better Cities evenings on Health and Social Innovation through Big Data about “Combatting antibiotic resistance using surveillance”. See

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

One of the themes in the McArthurLab is research at the intersection of academia, government, and industry. We endeavour to work with government agencies and

“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.