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The recent advancements in rapid and affordable DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized diagnostic microbiology and microbial surveillance. The availability of bioinformatics tools and online accessible databases has been a prerequisite for this. We conducted a scientific literature review and here we present a description of examples of available tools and databases for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) detection and provide future perspectives and recommendations. At least 47 freely accessible bioinformatics resources for detection of AMR determinants in DNA or amino acid sequence data have been developed to date. These include, among others but not limited to, ARG-ANNOT, CARD, SRST2, MEGARes, Genefinder, ARIBA, KmerResistance, AMRFinder, and ResFinder. Bioinformatics resources differ for several parameters including type of accepted input data, presence/absence of software for search within a database of AMR determinants that can be specific to a tool or cloned from other resources, and for the search approach employed, which can be based on mapping or on alignment. As a consequence, each tool has strengths and limitations in sensitivity and specificity of detection of AMR determinants and in application, which for some of the tools have been highlighted in benchmarking exercises and scientific articles. The identified tools are either available at public genome data centers, from GitHub or can be run locally. NCBI and European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) provide possibilities for online submission of both sequencing and accompanying phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility data, allowing for other researchers to further analyze data, and develop and test new tools. The advancement in whole genome sequencing and the application of online tools for real-time detection of AMR determinants are essential to identify control and prevention strategies to combat the increasing threat of AMR. Accessible tools and DNA sequence data are expanding, which will allow establishing global pathogen surveillance and AMR tracking based on genomics. There is however, a need for standardization of pipelines and databases as well as phenotypic predictions based on the data.
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View all literature mentionsThe goals of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Database (ARGB) are to provide a centralized compendium of information on antibiotic resistance, to facilitate the consistent annotation of resistance information in newly sequenced organisms, and also to facilitate the identification and characterization of new genes. ARGB contains six types of database groups: - Resistance Type: This database contains information, such as resistance profile, mechanism, requirement, epidemiology for each type. - Resistance Gene: This database contains information, such as resistance profile, resistance type, requirement, protein and DNA sequence for each gene.This database only includes NON-REDUNDANT, NON-VECTOR, COMPLETE genes. - Antibiotic: This database contains information, such as producer, action mechanism, resistance type, for each gene. - Resistance Gene(NonRD): This database contains the same information as Resistance Gene. It does NOT include NON-REDUNDANT, NON-VECTOR genes, but includes INCOMPLETE genes. - Resistance Gene(ALL): This database contains the same information as Resistance Gene. It includes all REDUNDANT, VECTOR AND INCOMPLETE genes. - Resistance Species: This database contains resistance profile and corresponding resistance genes for each species. Furthermore, ARDB also contians three types BLAST database: - Resistance Genes Complete: Contains only NON-REDUNDANT, NON-VECTOR, COMPLETE genes sequences. - Resistance Genes Non-redundant: Contains NON-REDUNDANT, NON-VECTOR, COMPLETE, INCOMPLETE genes sequences. - Resistance Genes All: Contains all REDUNDANT, VECTOR, COMPLETE, INCOMPLETE genes sequences. Lastly, ARDB provides four types of Analytical tools: - Normal BLAST: This function allows an user to input a DNA or protein sequence, and find similar DNA (Nucleotide BLAST) or protein (Protein BLAST) sequences using blastn, blastp, blastx, tblastn, tblastx - RPS BLAST: A web RPSBLAST (RPS BLAST) interface is provided to align a query sequence against the Position Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) for each type. Normally, this will give the same annotation information as using regular BLAST mentioned above. - Multiple Sequences BLAST (Genome Annotation): This function allows an user to annotate multiple (less than 5000) query sequences in FASTA format. - Mutation Resistance Identification: This function allows an user to identify mutations that will cause potential antibiotic resistance, for 12 genes (16S rRNA, 23S rRNA, gyrA, gyrB, parC, parE, rpoB, katG, pncA, embB, folP, dfr). ������ :Sponsors: ARDB is funded by Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, administered by the Henry Jackson Foundation. :
View all literature mentionsSoftware that is designed to take Illumina sequence data, a MLST database and/or a database of gene sequences (e.g. resistance genes, virulence genes, etc) and report the presence of STs and/or reference genes.
View all literature mentionsAnalysis software that identifies antibiotic resistance genes by running local assemblies. It can also be used for MLST calling.
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