White papers, checklists and technical notes from The Ancient BioChain. Everything here is free to read in full on this site, without a form. We ask for an email address only for the PDF editions, so we can tell you when one is revised.
The problem, the published evidence for it, and a model for recording the events and relationships that connect existing records across systems. Includes a proposed minimum provenance record for every ancient genome and the design of a pilot that reconstructs evidence chains from public data. Free to read in full on this site; the PDF is available on request.
Twenty-eight things to record when you deposit ancient DNA data, and again when you reuse it, organised by the five breaks where evidence chains come apart. The working version is open on this site; the PDF is available on request.
The Ancient DNA Provenance Checklist turns the minimum provenance record from the white paper into something a laboratory or a data user can work through. Longer arguments appear first in Origins.
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