Our new pipeline for analysing highly degraded genomic DNA data is now available at biorXiv!
Study led by Bilal Sharif
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...
Check out our study!
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! 🧬🐻🐾🏔️🧊
Check @officialernst.bsky.social thread 👉
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OA article 👉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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
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...
Meet our keynote speakers 💁♂️
CRISTINA VALDIOSERA (@universidadburgos.bsky.social)
Cristina is a leading expert in ancient human DNA, focusing on the genomic history of past populations and the impact of cultural shifts on human evolution.
Conference info & registration 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.
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
