Ancient DNA provides a direct window into the evolutionary processes that have shaped living microbial species today, as well as their now extinct relatives. Advances in both …
Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics textbook: spaam-community.org/intro-to-ancient-metagenomics-book “Focusing on host-associated ancient metagenomics, readers will learn the main …
Major advances over the past decade in the field of ancient DNA are providing access to past paleogenomic diversity, but the diverse functions and biosynthetic capabilities of this …
sam2lca is a program performing reference sequence disambiguation for reads mapping to multiple reference sequences in a shotgun metagenomics sequencing dataset. To do so, it takes …
DNA de novo assembly can be used to reconstruct longer stretches of DNA (contigs), including genes and even genomes, from short DNA sequencing reads. Applying this technique to …
Loss of gut microbial diversity in industrial populations is associated with chronic diseases, underscoring the importance of studying our ancestral gut microbiome. However, …
Ancient DNA and RNA are valuable data sources for a wide range of disciplines. Within the field of ancient metagenomics, the number of published genetic datasets has risen …