New paper alert 🚨
A study led by #CPGSthlm researchers found DNA from a bear in 9.6k year old lake sediments. This potentially rewrites the history of brown bears in Scandinavia! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊
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OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We present DNAharvester 🎉🦴🚜🧬
A pipeline to process highly degraded ancient DNA data that integrates metagenomic filtering, competitive mapping, multiple alignment strategies, reference bias evaluation and much more.
GitHub: github.com/NBISweden/DN...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our new pipeline for analysing highly degraded genomic DNA data is now available at biorXiv!
Study led by Bilal Sharif
Check out our study!
After the last ice age, species migrated into a newly deglaciated Scandinavia. Brown
bear recolonization is thought to have occurred from two direc...
This was a fun study to be a part of, especially as the findings/story developed
Great collaboration between @cpgsthlm.bsky.social and the Geological Sciences department at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Led by @officialernst.bsky.social and Isa Feinauer
Centre for Palaeogenetics
Centre for Palaeogenetics
Pete Heintzman
DNAharvester: A Nextflow Pipeline for Analysing Highly Degraded DNA from Ancient and Historical Specimens https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.20.719564v1
Come to Stockholm! #SPAAM8
Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot
@heasvienna.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/d41...