Blog

All blog posts from the SPAAM community can be found below.

The SPAAM blog was founded in 2022 and curated by Eleanor Joan Green and Shreya Ramachandran until 2025. Since 2026, the SPAAM blog is curated by Marcel Keller.

• Wrangling Sequencing Data. Part 3: File Formats 02 Feb 2026

• Wrangling Sequencing Data. Part 2: File Formats 02 Feb 2026

• Wrangling Sequencing Data. Part 1: File Formats 02 Feb 2026

• ISBA11 Debriefing 23 Oct 2025

• False positive discoveries in ancient metagenomics, and how aMeta attempts to solve the problem: Part 2 23 Jan 2025

• False positive discoveries in ancient metagenomics, and how aMeta attempts to solve the problem: Part 1 27 Sep 2024

• History of SPAAM 11 Sep 2023

• How deep do I screen? Read allocation when shotgun sequence screening for ancient pathogens 07 Apr 2023

• Don’t get flustered! What’s a cluster? The use of the word 'cluster' in palaeogenomics 23 Jan 2023

• Welcome to the SPAAM Blog! 15 Jul 2022