Resistome risk is the potential for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to be associated with mobile genetic elements (MGEs) and mobilize to pathogens based on metagenomic data.
The assembly of shotgun sequencing data and analysis of contigs containing ARGs allow us to determine if they contain sequence similarity to MGEs or human pathogens.
MetaCompare enables visual and quantitative comparison of collective resistome risk by projecting the samples into a hazard space and calculating resistome risk scores.