The Antibiotic Resistance Ontology describes antibiotic resistance genes and mutations, their products, mechanisms, and associated phenotypes, as well as antibiotics and their molecular targets. It is integrated with the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (https://card.mcmaster.ca), a curated resource containing high quality reference data on the molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance.
Ontologies at the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database are freely available under the Creative Commons CC-BY license version 4.0.
The Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO) is continuously improved by the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD) curation team, with updates released every 1-3 months here and at the CARD website. This repo (https://github.com/arpcard/aro) does not accept pull requests, instead please request additions or modifications to the ARO either here via https://github.com/arpcard/aro/issues or at https://github.com/arpcard/amr_curation. The curation team will work with you to incorporate your suggestions into the next release of the ARO.
The latest version of the ontology can always be found at:
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/aro.owl
(note this will not show up until the request has been approved by obofoundry.org)
Please contact us at card@mcmaster.ca.