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Merlin Szymanski

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyORCID 0000-0001-8501-2497Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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BioinformaticsMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewedNov 24, 2025

quick analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA using quicksand

Merlin Szymanski, Johann Visagie, Frédéric Romagné…·Janet F. Kelso

quicksand is a Nextflow pipeline for rapid and accurate taxonomic classification of sedaDNA mtDNA, achieving comparable accuracy to existing methods with reduced runtime.

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