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. 2021 Feb 20;10(2):209. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics10020209

Table 1.

Bioinformatic tools and databases for antimicrobial resistant gene (ARG) detection from whole genome sequencing (WGS) or whole metagenome sequencing (WMS) data.

Name Type of Tool Link
RGI Assembly-based https://card.mcmaster.ca/analyze/rgi (accessed on 15 January 2021)
CARD Assembly-based https://card.mcmaster.ca/ (accessed on 15 January 2021)
ARGs-OAP (v2 Assembly-based https://galaxyproject.org/use/args-oap/ (accessed on 15 January 2021)
ARIBA Assembly-based https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/ariba (accessed on 15 January 2021)
NCBI–AMRFinder Assembly-based https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pathogens/antimicrobial-resistance/AMRFinder/ (accessed on 15 January 2021)
PointFinder Assembly-based https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ResFinder/ (accessed on 15 January 2021)
ShortBRED Read-based http://huttenhower.sph.harvard.edu/shortbred (accessed on 15 January 2021)
SEAR Read-based https://github.com/will-rowe/SEAR (accessed on 15 January 2021)
KmerResistance Read-based https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/KmerResistance/ (accessed on 15 January 2021)
PATRIC Read-based www.patricbrc.org (accessed on 15 January 2021)
SSTAR Read-based https://github.com/tomdemanbio/Sequence-Search-Toolfor-Antimicrobial-Resistance-SSTAR (accessed on 15 January 2021)
DeepArgs Read-based https://bench.cs.vt.edu/deeparg (accessed on 15 January 2021)
GROOT Read-based https://github.com/will-rowe/groot (accessed on 15 January 2021)