Proper Authentication of Ancient DNA Is Still Essential

Salmonella enterica genomes from victims of a major sixteenth-century epidemic in Mexico

(2018) Åshild J. Vågene et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

(2017) Laura S. Weyrich et al.   NATURE

Mining Metagenomic Data Sets for Ancient DNA: Recommended Protocols for Authentication

(2017) Felix M. Key et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Gut Microbiome and Putative Resistome of Inca and Italian Nobility Mummies

(2017) Tasha Santiago-Rodriguez et al.   Genes

Optimizing methods and dodging pitfalls in microbiome research

(2017) Dorothy Kim et al.   Microbiome

A critical assessment of the “sterile womb” and “in utero colonization” hypotheses: implications for research on the pioneer infant microbiome

(2017) Maria Elisa Perez-Muñoz et al.   Microbiome

Inherent bacterial DNA contamination of extraction and sequencing reagents may affect interpretation of microbiota in low bacterial biomass samples

(2016) Angela Glassing et al.   Gut Pathogens

MEGAN Community Edition - Interactive Exploration and Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome Sequencing Data

(2016) Daniel H. Huson et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Comparison of placenta samples with contamination controls does not provide evidence for a distinct placenta microbiota

(2016) Abigail P. Lauder et al.   Microbiome

Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification

(2015) Kirsten A. Ziesemer et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbiota of the indoor environment: a meta-analysis

(2015) Rachel I. Adams et al.   Microbiome

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Reply to Santiago-Rodriguezet al.: WasluxSreally isolated from 25- to 40-million-year-old bacteria?

(2014) Laura S. Weyrich et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Diverse and Widespread Contamination Evident in the Unmapped Depths of High Throughput Sequencing Data

(2014) Richard W. Lusk   PLoS One

mapDamage2.0: fast approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage parameters

(2013) Hákon Jónsson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Perils of Pathogen Discovery: Origin of a Novel Parvovirus-Like Hybrid Genome Traced to Nucleic Acid Extraction Spin Columns

(2013) S. N. Naccache et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS