In February 2013, we released a set of Denisova annotations tracks in conjunction with the publication of a paper by Meyer et al. (24). The sequence data were derived by applying a novel single-stranded DNA library preparation method to DNA previously extracted from 40 mg of a phalanx bone excavated from Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. The Genome Browser tracks show mappings to the human reference sequence of high-coverage Denisova sequence reads, variant calls from sequence reads of 11 modern individuals and an archaic Denisovan individual, and mutations in the modern human lineage that rose to fixation or near fixation since the split from the last common ancestor with Denisovans, along with predicted functional effects from the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (25).
