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The framework works across species & drug classes — and the code is open-source. Would love to hear feedback from those working in AMR surveillance!
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography: A Generalisable Framework for Studying Multivariate Drug Resistance
The global rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has motivated large-scale surveillance studies of bacterial pathogens. Although these datasets contain rich information on drug resistance, they are b...
www.biorxiv.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Applied to 3,600+ pneumococcal isolates, AMR Cartography revealed lineage-specific resistance and the genetic changes driving multidrug resistance.
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Instead of treating correlations between drugs as noise, we use them as insight.
That lets us see:
• subtle shifts before breakpoints
• co-resistance patterns
• collateral sensitivity trade-offs
• identify genetic markers for resistance
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
In our new preprint we introduce AMR Cartography: a way to map full resistance profiles into simple 2D maps.
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
By ignoring that structure, we lose the early warning signs of resistance emerging — and miss how resistance evolves in real populations.
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM