Poseidon – A framework for archaeogenetic human genotype data management

• DOI: 10.7554/elife.98317
• Publication Date: 2024-06-19T15:28:01Z
• Authors: Clemens Schmid; Ayshin Ghalichi; Thiseas C. Lamnidis; Dhananjaya B. A. ...; Wolfgang Haak; Stephan Schiffels

The study of ancient human genomes, archaeo- or palaeogenetics, has accelerated in the last ten years, with now thousands new genomes being released each year. Operating at interface genetics, anthro-pology and archaeology, this data includes features from all three fields, including rich meta- context-data, for example regarding spatiotemporal provenience. While archives standards genetic sequencing al-ready exist, no such infrastructure exists combined meta-data that could ensure FAIR principles across field. Here, we present Poseidon, a framework open handling archaeogenetics, specified package format, software tools, public, community-maintained online archives. Poseidon emphasises human- machine-readable storage, development convenient interoperable command line software, high degree source granularity to elevate original publication main unit long-term curation.