aDNA/aeDNA folks: tired of eyeballing hundreds of damage plots? I am excited to introduce AdDeam—a tool to rapidly generate damage profiles, cluster them, and spot outliers. Great for large sample sets or flagging modern contigs in ancient metagenomics assemblies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Motivation DNA damage patterns, such as increased frequencies of C>T and G>A substitutions at fragment ends, are widely used in ancient DNA studies to assess authenticity and detect contamination. In ...
