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Performance characteristics of next-generation sequencing for antimicrobial resistance gene detection in genomes and metagenomes
Ashley M. Rooney, Amogelang R. Raphenya, Roberto Gustavo Melano…·Bryan A. Coburn
This study evaluates the performance of short-read sequencing for detecting antimicrobial resistance genes in genomes and metagenomes, finding that assembly-based methods require 15X coverage for reliable detection.
DOI 10.1101/2021.06.25.449921