Identification and reconstruction of novel antibiotic resistance genes from metagenomes.

Fanny BerglundTobias ÖsterlundFredrik BoulundNachiket P MaratheD G Joakim LarssonErik Kristiansson

Published in: Microbiome (2019)

We conclude that fARGene provides an efficient and reliable way to explore the unknown resistome in bacterial communities. The method is applicable to any type of ARGs and is freely available via GitHub under the MIT license.

Keyphrases

antibiotic resistance genes
microbial community
wastewater treatment
anaerobic digestion
bioinformatics analysis