AuthentiCT: a model of ancient DNA damage to estimate the proportion of present-day DNA contamination

Abstract Contamination from present-day DNA is a fundamental issue when studying ancient DNA from historical or archaeological material, and quantifying the amount of contamination is essential for downstream analyses. We present AuthentiCT, a command-line tool to estimate the proportion of present-...

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Main Authors: Stéphane Peyrégne, Benjamin M. Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:Genome Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02123-y