MetaCherchant: analyzing genomic context of antibiotic resistance genes in gut microbiota | Zendy

Evgenii I. Olekhnovich | Zendy; Artem T. Vasilyev | Zendy; Vladimir Ulyantsev | Zendy; Elena Kostryukova | Zendy; Alexander Tyakht | Zendy

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MetaCherchant: analyzing genomic context of antibiotic resistance genes in gut microbiota

Author(s) -

Evgenii I. Olekhnovich,

Artem T. Vasilyev,

Vladimir Ulyantsev,

Elena Kostryukova,

Alexander Tyakht

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

bioinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599

H-Index - 390

eISSN - 1367-4811

pISSN - 1367-4803

DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx681

Subject(s) - metagenomics , mobile genetic elements , biology , resistome , antibiotic resistance , genome , context (archaeology) , computational biology , gene , annotation , genetics , horizontal gene transfer , antibiotics , paleontology

Antibiotic resistance is an important global public health problem. Human gut microbiota is an accumulator of resistance genes potentially providing them to pathogens. It is important to develop tools for identifying the mechanisms of how resistance is transmitted between gut microbial species and pathogens.

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