diff --git a/section-ancient-metagenomics.qmd b/section-ancient-metagenomics.qmd index 5d5b673..604b5bd 100644 --- a/section-ancient-metagenomics.qmd +++ b/section-ancient-metagenomics.qmd @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ The techniques in this section of the book can be used in a variety of stages of ## [Taxonomic Profiling](taxonomic-profiling.qmd) +One of the first questions when looking at metagenomics data is often _Who is there?_. But this question is actually not specific to (ancient) metagenomics, but in fact is a broader ecological question that has first been applied to macro ecological systems. - - -_TBC_ - +In this chapter, we will show you how to answer this question at the microbial scale using methods applied to ancient metagenomics data. +We will talk about taxonomic profiling, ecological diversity metrics, how to compare different samples and see how they relate through their community composition. +We will learn about taxonomic profiler tools, ways to analyze and visualize taxonomic profiles, libraries to manipulate taxonomic profile tables, and libraries to compute and visualize ecological diversity metrics. ## [_De novo_ Assembly](denovo-assembly.qmd)