@adeflamingh.bsky.socialgithub.com/adeflamingh/.... The main software hasn't changed--alignments to MT and NUMT refs are used to find NUMT contamination. We mostly added some behind-the-scene checks when processing CIGAR strings and improved logs!
This repository is dedicated to code and associated metafiles for the NuMt_parser program (c) 2020 Angel G. Rivera-Colon & Alida de Flamingh - adeflamingh/NuMt_parser
A piece I wrote yesterday on the antiquity of the Blackfoot Confederacy and how scholars are praising Indigenous-led research. 🏺🧪
A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.
Read more about our recent Cape lion paper here: Cape Lion was genetically diverse prior to extinction, researchers find www.igb.illinois.edu/article/cape...
It’s kind of weirdly sad walking around right now and knowing that there used to be lions here. First pub out this year!
I legit just found myself googling "fancy word for when cats lick themselves" 🤣 working on a lion manuscript and jet lag got me like 🫠
9km hike through a magical forest enjoying nature and looking for fresh elephant poop 🐘 good to be back in this piece of the pretty-world for a while 💚 And I feasted on waterblommetjiebredie (yes that's one word) at dinner made by a family friend ♥️
Here’s a Friday challenge for you… can you guess the species? (Hint: Mammal phylogenetic relationships are sometimes just plain weird)…
When you know that only your eyes are going by to be visible for most of the day, you make it count 😝 ancient DNA lab “problems”
