(TLDR - to find out how to conduct AMR analysis, please continue reading here to get started.


AMR is a free and open-source R package to simplify the analysis and prediction of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and to work with antibiotic properties by using evidence-based methods.

We created this package for academic research at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen and the Medical Microbiology & Infection Prevention (MMBI) department of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). We released this under the GNU General Public Licence v2.0 (GPL-2) which makes it free for everybody to use and distribute, for personal and commercial use, but it may not be used for patent purposes. Read further about our GPL-2 licence here.

This package is ready-to-use for a professional environment by specialists in the following fields:

Medical Microbiology:

  • Epidemiologists (both clinical microbiological and research)
  • Research Microbiologists
  • Biomedical Researchers
  • Research Pharmacologists

Veterinary Microbiology:

  • Research Veterinarians
  • Veterinary Epidemiologists
  • Biomedical Researchers

Microbial Ecology:

  • Soil Microbiologists
  • Extremophile Researchers
  • Astrobiologists

Other specialists in any of the above fields:

  • Data Scientists/Data Analysts
  • Biotechnologists
  • Biochemists
  • Geneticists
  • Molecular Biologists/Microbiologists

Developers:

  • Package developers for R
  • Software developers
  • Web application developers

Get this package

This package is available on the official R network. Install this package in R with:

It will be downloaded and installed automatically.

Get started

To find out how to conduct AMR analysis, please continue reading here to get started or click the button ‘Get Started’ in the top menu.