MetaCompare: a computational pipeline for prioritizing environmental resistome risk

@article{Oh2018MetaCompareAC,
  title={MetaCompare: a computational pipeline for prioritizing environmental resistome risk},
  author={Min Oh and Amy J. Pruden and Chaoqi Chen and Lenwood S. Heath and Kang Xia and Liqing Zhang},
  journal={FEMS Microbiology Ecology},
  year={2018},
  volume={94}
}
ABSTRACT The spread of antibiotic resistance is a growing public health concern. [] Key Method A computational pipeline was developed in which each ARG is evaluated based on relative abundance, mobility, and presence within a pathogen. This is determined through the assembly of shotgun sequencing data and analysis of contigs containing ARGs to determine if they contain sequence similarity to MGEs or human pathogens.
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