Figure 1. Growth of studies curated in the AncientMetagenomeDir as of v24.03.

(a) Number of ancient metagenomic publications published per year with open sequencing data and included in AncientMetagenomeDir. The original AncientMetagenomeDir publication was in 2020. (b) Cumulative sum of the number of published samples with publicly accessible sequencing data. (c) Cumulative sum of the number of ancient metagenomic sequencing data accessions of the samples in panel b. Data from Fellows Yates et al. ¹²