Peter D. Heintzman

G-ALN accelerates BWA-aln for ancient DNA analysis using GPU, achieving faster indexing and alignment speeds with identical output.

The paper uses sedimentary ancient DNA to analyze the timing of plant and animal arrivals in northeast Greenland, showing muskox arrived before humans and environmental changes coincided with cultural periods.

This study uses DNA from museum hair samples to confirm Thomas Jefferson's ancestry in descendants of Sally Hemings and Martha Wayles Jefferson, supporting paternity over alternative explanations.

DNAharvester is a Nextflow pipeline designed to process highly degraded DNA from ancient specimens, improving authentic data recovery through modular workflows and contamination mitigation.

The paper presents a method to identify and mask microbial-like sequences in eukaryotic reference genomes to improve taxonomic inference from ancient environmental metagenomic data.

This paper uses shotgun metagenomics to reconstruct population genomic data for the algae Nannochloropsis from lake sediment samples dated to the Last Glacial Maximum.

The paper curates and standardizes metadata for ancient metagenomic samples to improve data retrieval and interoperability.

This study uses Early Pleistocene dental enamel proteome sequences to resolve the phylogeny of Stephanorhinus, showing it is paraphyletic and requiring systematic revision.

The paper analyzes genomic data from passenger pigeons and their relatives to show that natural selection reduced neutral genetic diversity despite large population size, challenging previous extinction theories.

The paper analyzes ancient DNA from brown bear populations to show widespread polar bear admixture during the last ice age, peaking when their ranges overlapped.

This study uses historical genomes to show admixture before and after wisent extinction, challenging previous subspecies classifications.