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We sought to accelerate quantification of ARGs in metagenomic data from environmental samples.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: A Structured ARG reference database (SARG) was constructed by integrating ARDB and CARD, the two most commonly used databases. SARG was curated to remove redundant sequences and optimized to facilitate query sequence identification by similarity. A database with a hierarchical structure (type-subtype-reference sequence) was then constructed to facilitate classification (assigning ARG-like sequence to type, subtype and reference sequence) of sequences identified through similarity search. Utilizing SARG and a previously proposed hybrid functional gene annotation pipeline, we developed an online pipeline called ARGs-OAP for fast annotation and classification of ARG-like sequences from metagenomic data. We also evaluated and proposed a set of criteria important for efficiently conducting metagenomic analysis of ARGs using ARGs-OAP.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and Implementation: Perl script for ARGs-OAP can be downloaded from https:\/\/github.com\/biofuture\/Ublastx_stageone. ARGs-OAP can be accessed through http:\/\/smile.hku.hk\/SARGs.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0zhangt@hku.hk or tiedjej@msu.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btw136","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,13]],"date-time":"2016-03-13T01:18:47Z","timestamp":1457831927000},"page":"2346-2351","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":358,"title":["ARGs-OAP: online analysis pipeline for antibiotic resistance genes detection from metagenomic data using an integrated structured ARG-database"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Ying","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"},{"name":"2 School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaotao","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Benli","family":"Chai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Liping","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bing","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anni","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James R.","family":"Cole","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"James M.","family":"Tiedje","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3 Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023020112472081200_btw136-B1","first-page":"1","article-title":"CopyRighter: a rapid tool for improving the accuracy of microbial community profiles through lineage-specific gene copy number correction","volume-title":"Microbiome","author":"Angly","year":"2014"},{"key":"2023020112472081200_btw136-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12753","DOI":"10.1021\/es403818e","article-title":"Metagenomic profiles of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) between human impacted estuary and deep ocean sediments","volume":"47","author":"Chen","year":"2013","journal-title":"Environ. 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