The McArthur lab welcomes new Curator-Developer William Huynh to the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database staff. Looking forward to pushing CARD forward with William’s help!
Category: molecular epidemiology
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Welcome Ashraf Bazan, who has joined the lab and the McMaster Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences graduate program! A familiar face in the IIDR as he started
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Congratulations finishing thesis students!
COVID19 kept us from celebrating together, but we are very proud of the work you have accomplished! Rachel Tran | Biochem 4T15 – Exploring the
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McArthur Lab & CARD during SARS-CoV-2
Quick update on the status of the McArthur Lab and the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database. While our home institution McMaster University is closed to on-site
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Nasir, J.A., D.J. Speicher, R.A. Kozak, H.N. Poinar, M.S. Miller, & A.G. McArthur. Preprints 2020, 2020020385. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel betacoronavirus and the aetiological agent
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Ahmad S, Wang B, Walker MD, Tran H-KR, Stogios PJ, Savchenko A, Grant RA, McArthur AG, Laub MT, Whitney JC Nature 2019 Nov 6. [Epub
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CARD 2020: antibiotic resistome surveillance with the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
Alcock BP, Raphenya AR, Lau TTY, Tsang KK, Bouchard M, Edalatmand A, Huynh W, Nguyen A-LV, Cheng AA, Liu S, Min SY, Miroshnichenko A, Tran
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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
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Speicher, D.J., K. Luinstra, J. Maciejewski, K.K. Tsang, A.G. McArthur, & M. Smieja. 2019. Clostridioides difficile strain divergence over time. Oral presentation at the Association of
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April 2019 big #card_release #RGI5! Resistance Gene Identifier Version 5: entirely new algorithms for metagenomics data, new options for genomes & assemblies. Extensively updated documentation,