Report of the twenty-third GAbridge project journal club, October 9th, 2026

 

On Friday, October 9th, 2026, the 23rd journal club meeting as part of the GAbridge project was held. PhD student Ivana Keršić presented the paper "Ancient Mongolian aurochs and cattle genomes reveal population shifts associated with the expansion of herding" (Brunson et al., 2026). The group has been following this paper with great interest since the preprint was published on bioRxiv.org and we were interested in the ancient samples and the methods used. Discussion focused on the quality of sequences produced in this study, whether or not (if yes, which?) we want to include samples from this study in our future datasets, given that the coverage of the sequences in the work is lower than expected. We also had the opportunity to compare the analysis protocol in our group with those presented in the paper.