ARGminer

ARGminer is database that focuses on the novel method of crowd-sourced curation over manual curation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARG) pulled from a multiple sources such as CARD, ARDB, NDARO, DeepARG, Uniprot, ResFinder, and SARG.^[1] Additionally, due to the existence of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGE), ARGminer also interfaces with PATRIC and ACLAME.^[1] ARGminer annotated genes using their gene name, antibiotic category, resistance mechanism, evidence for mobility and occurrence in clinically important bacterial strains.^[1] There are two groups of crowd-sourced curators. One was hired on Amazon Mechanical Turk which offers a broad audience of crowd-sourced experts and non-experts that can annotate for monetary reward. Due to the presence of mixed expertise, each user is only allowed maximum 20 annotations. The other group is a graduate-level microbiology class.^[1]

ARGminer

Content
Description	Database focused on crowd-sourced curation of ARG pulled from multiple sources.
Data types captured	Antimicrobial resistance
Organisms	Bacteria
Access
Website	bench.cs.vt.edu/argminer
Miscellaneous
Bookmarkable entities	yes

See also

• Antimicrobial Resistance databases