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argNorm: normalization of antibiotic resistance gene annotations to the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO)

2025· article· en· W4409567869 on OpenAlexafffund
Svetlana Ugarčina Perović, Vedanth Ramji, Hui Chong, Yiqian Duan, Finlay Maguire, Luís Pedro Coelho

Bibliographic record

VenueBioinformatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
FundersNational Health and Medical Research CouncilInstitut National de la Santé et de la Recherche MédicaleMedical Research CouncilUniversità degli Studi di TrentoEuropean Molecular Biology LaboratoryUniversity of PretoriaInternational Development Research CentreJoint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance
KeywordsAntibioticsAntibiotic resistanceNormalization (sociology)Gene ontologyGeneComputer scienceComputational biologyBiologyMicrobiologyGeneticsGene expressionSociology

Abstract

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SUMMARY: Currently available and frequently used tools for annotating antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in genomes and metagenomes provide results using inconsistent nomenclature. This makes the comparison of different ARG annotation outputs challenging. The comparability of ARG annotation outputs can be improved by mapping gene names and their categories to a common controlled vocabulary such as the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO). We developed argNorm, a command line tool and Python library, to normalize all detected genes across six ARG annotation tools (eight databases) to the ARO. argNorm also adds information to the outputs using the same ARG categorization so that they are comparable across tools. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: argNorm is available as an open-source tool at: https://github.com/BigDataBiology/argNorm. It can also be downloaded as a PyPI package and is available on Bioconda and as an nf-core module.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0160.015

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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