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Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Jul 30

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The idea started as a journal club run by @siobhane13.bsky.social in September 2023 and eventually morphed into a lab wide paper at @acadresearch.bsky.social.
It was a lot of fun working with the group and co-leading with Dr. Roberta Davidson. I would love to hear your thoughts.

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Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧬 📜 New paper alert! 📜 🧬

We review recent literature that use ancient DNA methods in the analysis of archeological artefacts. We hope this will be a useful resource to improve the inclusion of ancient DNA methods into the study of ancient artefacts.

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The necessity for authentication of ancient DNA from archaeological artefacts

The study of ancient DNA (aDNA) has revolutionised the fields of archaeology, human evolution and paleoecology, offering new insights into the past. I…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · May 27

Terminal Genome Viewer (tgv), written in Rust github.com/zeqianli/tgv

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Jamie Wood @larusnz.bsky.social · Apr 15

Sedimentary ancient DNA from caves: Challenges and opportunities doi.org/10.1002/jqs.... , first publication from the PhD research of @siobhane13.bsky.social - congratulations!

Sedimentary ancient DNA from caves: Challenges and opportunities

Caves are unique depositional environments that hold great potential for long-term preservation of DNA due to their typically cool and stable internal climates, buffered from external climate extreme...

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Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Jan 31

Had a fantastic time meeting great people and learning about exciting aDNA research! Thanks @mattiassherman.bsky.social and team for organising a great event and giving me an opportunity to present my work.

Mattias Sherman @mattiassherman.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very happy with how our Ancient Canines Symposium went yesterday which we organised as part of the London Ancient DNA Network!! Such good talks (and pub chats) for the first of many events to bring together our local #aDNA community!

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Jessica Peto standing behind a Natural History Museum lectern presenting her PhD work on the zooarchaeological and genetic history of wolves in Britain. The current slide entitled "The Last Wolf" shows historical illustrations of wolf hunting.

Dr William Marsh standing behind a Natural History Museum lectern presenting his work on ancient dogs. The current slide entitled "Background - Magdalenian at Gough's Cave" shows geological scale temperature fluctuations and a map indicating the location of Gough's Cave.

Shyam Ravishankar standing behind a Natural History Museum lectern presenting his work on dingo population structure and genetic history. The current slide entitled "Conclusions" shows the different conclusions drawn from his work as well as a picture of an adult dingo caring for its pups.

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Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Dec 25

Since your reads are so short, even a smaller Kmer db would struggle with classifying them. And smaller kmer db come with more false classifications as well.

Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Dec 25

Your approach is perfectly fine. You could use the classification to remove reads from taxa you are not interested in.
My opinion is that the database is more important than the classifier. If you are happy with the database, I’d stick to that.

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Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Dec 19

Thanks Mikkel!

Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thanks @mp-williams.bsky.social! Glad you enjoyed it!

Shyam Ravishankar @shyama-mama.bsky.social · Dec 18

Very excited to share the first paper from my PhD thesis. It was a pleasure to work with such amazing people. Check out the thread and paper below. Keen to hear your thoughts.

Bastien Llamas @dnatimetravel.bsky.social · Dec 17

Congrats to @shyama-mama.bsky.social for his first first-author PhD paper! 🥳

Very keen to hear what #aDNA researchers think of the approach...

The method is relevant for #aDNA sequencing data from eukaryotic organisms, which are typically heavily contaminated by exogenous sources of DNA. 🧵1/n

Matthew Williams @mp-williams.bsky.social · Dec 16

Filtering out the noise to get that sweet #aDNA signal! @smiao.bsky.social @dnatimetravel.bsky.social 👏🏾 academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

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ANU NCIG (National Centre for Indigenous Genomics) @ncig2013.bsky.social · Nov 18

🌟 Abstract submissions open!
Are you an Indigenous researcher?
Join the conversation at the 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 & 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! Share your research and contribute to our collective knowledge.
Submit here ➡️ lnkd.in/eYs4VZSD ✍️

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