We thank the nf-core community for general support and suggestions during the writing of the pipeline. We also thank Arielle Munters, Hester van Schalkwyk, Irina Velsko, Katherine Eaton, Luc Venturini, Marcel Keller, Pierre Lindenbaum, Pontus Skoglund, Raphael Eisenhofer, Torsten Günter, Kevin Lord, and Åshild Vågene for bug reports and feature suggestions. We are grateful to the members of the Department of Archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History who performed beta testing of the pipeline. We thank the aDNA twitter community for responding to polls regarding design decisions during development.
The Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung (GWDG, Göttingen) kindly provided computational infrastructure for benchmarking. We also want to thank Selina Carlhoff, Maria Spyrou, Elisabeth Nelson, Alexander Herbig and Wolfgang Haak for providing comments and suggestions on this manuscript, and acknowledge Christina Warinner, Stephan Schiffels and the Max Planck Society who provided funds for travel to nf-core events. This project was also supported by the ERC Starting Grant project (FoodTransforms) ERC-2015-StG 678901 funded by the European Research Council awarded to Philipp W. Stockhammer (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich).