PMDTools

PostMortem Damage Tools

The program was developed to decipher endogenous, degraded DNA fragments from those derived from modern contaminations in ancient DNA extracts. It implements a likelihood framework utilizing patterns of postmortem damage, base quality scores and biological polymorphisms. The outcome is a sample specific PMD score that indicates, if it is genuinely of ancient material.

The underlying methods were described in Skoglund et al. (2014) and the program itself can be downloaded, click here.