Fig. 1From: HOPS: automated detection and authentication of pathogen DNA in archaeological remainsSchematic depiction of HOPS workflow. First, MALT aligns the metagenomic data against its reference database and has an optional mode for processing aDNA reads. MaltExtract then processes the MALT output with various filters and produces various statistics. Finally, post-processing procedures provide a comprehensive visualization of the output that can be evaluated to identify putatively positive hitsBack to article page