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Schmutzi at 10: Still Standing

A decade-long benchmark of ancient DNA mitochondrial contamination estimators The Problem: Every Ancient DNA Sample is Contaminated Ancient DNA is rarely pure. No matter how carefully a bone fragment is excavated, cleaned, and processed, modern human DNA will find its way into the extract. Laboratory workers, museum curators, archaeologists who handled the specimen centuries ago, all leave microscopic traces. In a typical ancient DNA library, anywhere from a few percent to nearly all the ...

Website release

New website A big thank you to the Lab Website Template and the modified template of the Medical Microbiology bioinformatics team, we are now releasing the website for the Modern and Ancient Genomes Group at the Technical University of Denmark.