MAPACHE: A flexible pipeline to map ancient DNA

DNA found in remains can tell us more about extinct species and how individuals lived in ancient civilizations. However, the level of degradation of this ancient DNA as well as the risk of contamination makes mapping of whole genomes a difficult process. In this in silico talk, Samuel Neuenschwander from the SIB group of Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas at the University of Lausanne introduces MAPACHE, a workflow which enables mapping of ancient DNA to assemble genomes efficiently and reproducibly. This was published in the journal, Bioinformatics. If you are interested in working with ancient DNA or other samples of DNA that need to be mapped, then this in silico talk is for you.

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Speaker

Name:

Samuel Neuenschwander

Institute:

University of Lausanne

Group:

Evolutionary Genomics

Samuel Neuenschwander works as a senior computational biologist at SIB in the Vital-IT group as well as the Evolutionary Genomics group at the University of Lausanne. In 2006, he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Bern in population genetics under the supervision of SIB Group Leader Laurent Excoffier and went on to undertake a postdoctoral fellowship in the SIB group of Jérôme Goudet at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne. His research interests are principally in population genomics, from computational modelling to genomic analyses of modern and ancient genomic samples.