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. 2026 Jan 21;14(1):248. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms14010248
AA Amino acid
ABC ATP-binding cassette
AIP Auto-inducing peptides
AMR Antimicrobial resistance
ARO Antibiotic-resistant organism
bp Base pair
CARD Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
Cas CRISPR-associated genes
CDS Coding sequence
CLSI Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
CRISPR Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
GRAS Generally recognized as safe
IS Insertion sequence
MFS Major facilitator superfamily
MHA Mueller–Hinton agar
MHB Mueller–Hinton broth
MIC Minimum inhibitory concentration
MPH Macrolide phosphotransferase
PGAP Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline
PHASTER Phage Search Tool Enhanced Release
RAST Rapid annotations using subsystems technology
RiPPs Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides
SMR Small multidrug resistance
VF Virulence factor
VFDB Virulence Factor Database
WGS Whole-genome sequencing