CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

Funding This work was supported by the US National Institutes of Health R01GM089886 (to Christina Warinner and Cecil Lewis), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft EXC 2051 #390713860 (to Christina Warinner), and the Max Planck Society. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Acknowledgements We thank David Petts, Zdeněk Tvrdý, Susanne Stegmann-Rajtar, and Zuzana Rajtarova for contributing archaeological samples to this study. We thank the Guildford Museum (Guildford Borough Council Heritage Service) and Catriona Wilson for allowing us to analyze the chamber pot paleofeces sample from Surrey, UK. The sample from Derragh, Ireland was excavated by Discovery Programme, an all-Ireland public center of archaeological research supported by the Heritage Council, during field work in 2003–2005 as part of the Lake Settlement Project. Thanks to the Servei d’Investigacio Prehistorica of Valencia and Museu de la Valltorta of Catello for access to material. Data Availability The following information was supplied regarding data availability: The code for the analysis is available at GitHub: https://github.com/maxibor/coproid-article and Zenodo: Maxime Borry, Alexander Peltzer, & James A. Fellows Yates. (2019, April 29). nf-core/coproid: coproID v1.0 - Dioptre Walrus (Version 1.0). Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.2653757.