We’ve covered the mitochondrial genome of the Denisova individual 2 years ago, back in March 2010. For those not familiar with the Denisova hominin, this specimen represents an archaic human species present at least 41,000 years ago – coexisting with Neandertals and modern humans in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. The species is represented by a tooth and phalange.
A draft of the genome was released shortly afterwards in December, 2010. Today, after 30-fold coverage of the genome using Illumina GAIIx sequencing platform, the complete genome was released. It is free to download and use on Amazon Web Services… weighing in at 160gb. I can imagine a lot of interesting comparisons can be made with this dataset and am happy the researchers made it available to the public. There’s a caveat though, you can use the data but however agree that you cannot publish your findings until the researchers at Max Planck first get a stab at it.
Filed under: Blog, Physical Anthropology Tagged: archaic homo sapiens, Denisova, Denisova hominin, genome, human, Max Planck, Neanderthal, Shotgun sequencing
