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Published February 3, 2026 | Version v25.12.2
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SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir: v25.12.2: Historic Centre of Sighișoara

Authors/Creators

  • 1. HKI Jena, MPI-EVA Leipzig
  • 2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • 3. Stockholm University
  • 4. LIIGH
  • 5. Utrecht University
  • 6. TU Delft
  • 7. University of Otago
  • 8. Merck KGAa
  • 9. Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – HKI
  • 10. University of Texas at Austin
  • 11. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Description

Patch release: update of the dates table (see Corrected and Misc)

Release v25.12.0 includes 5 new publications, representing 28 new ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 3 new ancient microbial genomes, and 0 new ancient environmental samples. This brings the repository to a total of 216 publications, 1,733 ancient host-associated metagenome samples, 813 ancient microbial genomes, and 803 ancient environmental samples.

Furthermore, this release adds 44 new ancient host-associated metagenome libraries, 69 new ancient microbial genome libraries, and 0 new ancient environmental libraries. This brings the repository to a total of 2,980 ancient host-associated metagenome libraries, 3,621 ancient microbial genomes libraries, and 928 ancient environmental libraries.

Added

Ancient Metagenome: Host Associated

  • Guinet 2025 10.1016/j.cell.2025.08.003 (added by @BenjaminGuinet)
  • Jin 2025 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109604 (added by @Amend-1634)

Ancient Single Genome: Host Associated

  • Ramirez 2025 10.1038/s41559-025-02771-y (added by @YuejiaoHuang and @darioramirez092)
  • L'hôte 2024 10.1038/s41467-024-50536-1 (added by @aidaanva)

Ancient Metagenome: Environmental

Changed

  • Added two samples of Ottoni2021 with wide sample age ranges that were previously excluded (added by @alexhbnr)

Removed

Corrected

  • Fixed inconsistent values for missing data in dates table and documentation for dates table.

Misc

  • Renaming of column calibrated_range_sigma to calibrated_range_confidence_interval after consultation with radiocarbon specialist in the dates table

Historic Centre of Sighişoara

Founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the Saxons of Transylvania, Sighişoara is a fine example of a small, fortified medieval town which played an important strategic and commercial role on the fringes of central Europe for several centuries.

Files

SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir-v25.12.2.zip

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Software: https://github.com/SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir/tree/v25.12.2 (URL)

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/SPAAM-community/AncientMetagenomeDir