Origins
We called it Origins because provenance is ultimately concerned with origins — not only the biological origins studied through ancient DNA, but the origins of evidence itself. Where did this record come from? What preceded it? What transformed it? What depends upon it? Origins follows those questions through archaeogenomics, ancient pathogens, computational biology, scientific data infrastructure and provenance.
Five Ways an Ancient Genome Gets Lost
Where evidence chains break in practice — and why the breaks are rarely in the data itself.
Ancient DNAThe Sequence Is Not the Evidence
Why ancient DNA needs a provenance layer Ancient DNA has transformed our ability to reconstruct the past. From fragments of genetic material recovered from…
From the ChainWhy Ancient DNA? Building a Public Demonstration of The BioChain
Building a public demonstration of The BioChain The BioChain was built around a simple problem: scientific evidence rarely lives in one place. A biological…
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