SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir: v20.12: Ancient City of Nessebar

Release Description

Second major release of AncientMetagenomeDir.

Release v20.12 includes 20 new publications, representing 42 new ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 46 new ancient microbial genomes and 23 new ancient environmental samples.

This brings the repository to a total of 546 ancient host-associated metagenome samples, and 319 ancient microbial genomes and 338 ancient environmental samples.

Corrections were made to 9 publications. New functionality includes auto-generated images of sample location maps, sample count histograms and publication count timelines on each new merge. These can be found under assets/live/images.

The full changelog is below.

Added Ancient Metagenome: Host Associated

• Modi 2020 10.1007/s12520-019-00983-5
• Appelt 2014 10.1128/AEM.03242-13
• Eisenhofer 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0578
• Jacobson 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0589
• Sabin 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0576
• Williams 2020 10.1128/MRA.00850-20
• Fotakis 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0584

Ancient Single Genome: Host Associated

• Susat 2020 10.1038/s41598-020-71530-9
• Eisenhofer 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0578
• Morozova 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0569
• Schuenemann 2018 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006447
• Ferrari 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0572
• Williams 2020 10.1128/MRA.00850-20
• Fotakis 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0584
• Marciniak 2016 10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.016
• Gelabert 2016 10.1073/pnas.1611017113
• Taubenberger 2005 10.1038/nature04230
• Lugli 2017 10.1186/s40168-016-0221-y
• Bravo Lopez 2020 10.1098/rstb.2019.0580

Ancient Metagenome: Environmental

• Added new metadata columns to improve data reconstructions: sequence_name (e.g. core, transect), depth, feature (e.g. cave, lake), study type.
• Braadbaart 2020 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102468
• DerSarkissian 2016 10.1111/1755-0998.12679

Ancient Metagenome: Anthropogenic Misc

• Added 'live-status' summary images that are displayed on README and updated on every new submission.

Changed

• Ardelean 2020: Differentiated samples with identical names
• Ahmed 2018: Updated sample_age and sample_age_doi
• Graham 2016: Updated sequence_name
• Wang 2017: Updated sequence_name
• Pedersen 2016: Updated sequence_name and corrected two typos in depth
• Armbrecht 2020: fixed broken DOI due to spreadsheet drag-down error
• de Dios 2019: Standardised coordinates and location name with Gelabert 2016 for accuracy
• van Dorp 2020: Standardised coordinates and location name with Gelabert 2016 for accuracy
• Weyrich 2017: Replaced OAGR codes with newly uploaded SRA accession numbers

Ancient City of Nessebar

Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria). At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the city became a Greek colony. The city's remains, which date mostly from the Hellenistic period, include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, an agora and a wall from the Thracian fortifications. Among other monuments, the Stara Mitropolia Basilica and the fortress date from the Middle Ages, when this was one of the most important Byzantine towns on the west coast of the Black Sea. Wooden houses built in the 19th century are typical of the Black Sea architecture of the period. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 from https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/217/