Improving data archiving practices in ancient genomics

A Bergström - Scientific Data, 2024‏ - nature.com
Ancient DNA is producing a rich record of past genetic diversity in humans and other
species. However, unless the primary data is appropriately archived, its long-term value will …

Ancient DNA data hold insights into past organisms and ecosystems—handle them with more care

A Bergström, JA Fellows Yates, C Warinner - 2024‏ - nature.com
Comment in genetic data sharing4, 5. However, as the pace of ancient DNA research has
increased—largely thanks to the latest capabilities in DNA sequencing (see 'A sampling …

Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage

I Light-Maka, TR Hermes, RA Bianco, L Semerau… - bioRxiv, 2025‏ - biorxiv.org
Most human pathogens are of zoonotic origin. Many emerged during prehistory, coinciding
with domestication providing more opportunities for spillover from original host species …

[HTML][HTML] 17 Ancient Metagenomic Pipelines

JAF Yates, M Michel, N Oskolkov‏ - spaam-community.org
A pipeline is a series of linked computational steps, where the output of one process
becomes the input of the next. Pipelines are critical for managing the huge quantities of data …