| Literature DB >> 30875054 |
Gabriel Renaud1, Mikkel Schubert1, Susanna Sawyer1, Ludovic Orlando2,3.
Abstract
Contamination from both present-day humans and postmortem microbial sources is a common challenge in ancient DNA studies. Here we present a suite of tools to assist in the assessment of contamination in ancient DNA data sets. These tools perform standard tests of authenticity of ancient DNA data including detecting the presence of postmortem damage signatures in sequence alignments and quantifying the amount of present-day human contamination.Entities:
Keywords: Ancient DNA; Contamination; DICE; Postmortem damage; Schmutzi; mapDamage2.0
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30875054 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9176-1_17
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Methods Mol Biol ISSN: 1064-3745