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you're right they are D-Ala D-Ala ligases, selected on cycloserine and not on glycopeptides, my bad

though from functional metagenomics experiments single genes seem to confer a lower susceptibility to glycopeptides when transferred/expressed in E. coli

I loved this one, but an update may be necessary (especially with regards to detection) Review Nat Rev Microbiol . 2015 Feb;13(2):116-23. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro3399. Epub 2014 Dec 15.
What is a resistance gene? Ranking risk in resistomes
José L Martínez, Teresa M Coque, Fernando Baquero

I have been grumpy on many occasions :-) I would say that the main issues are (1) the inadequation between the choice of the database and the scientific question (e.g. choose ResFinder to look for intrinsinc ARG of soil bacteria) and (2) the lack of discussion/criticism of the results

When ➡️ November 6-7 2025
Where ➡️ Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland
How to register ➡️https://clinicalmetagenomics.org/?page_id=53
Abstracts are welcome ➡️https://clinicalmetagenomics.org/?page_id=265

Looking forward to seing you in Geneva to celebrate the 10 years of clinical metagenomics!

For this 10th birthday, we will review the last decade of clinical metagenomics and forecast the next. To this aim, we have built a line-up of top speakers, with Charles Chiu, Ruth Ley, Nicola Segata, Curtis Huttenhower, Flaminia Olearo, Alice Chen-Liaw, Iwijn De Vlaminck, David Gaston and others!

Congrats @svetlanaup.bsky.social for this brilliant and useful piece of work!

Full paper and all supp mat doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

For clinical metagenomics, we also show that distinguishing contaminants from actual pathogens can be improved using data such as 16S qPCR Ct value, number of CMg species identified, number of non-human CMg reads and, highest genome completeness among CMg species.

indeed they're helpful in preventing from feeling alone too long!