Human AGEs

Human AGEs integrates and visualizes genomic, archaeological, and anthropological data across space and time to support archeogenomic analyses of human populations and their history.

Key Features:

• Spatio-Temporal Visualization: Spatio-temporal visualizations integrate genomic data including ancient DNA (aDNA) with archaeological and anthropological information to represent changes across time and geography.
• Multi-Layered Data Display: Map-based multi-layer displays (bubble charts, pie charts, heatmaps, tag clouds) enable layered representation and simultaneous inspection of diverse data types.
• Customization Options: Clustering, filtering, and styling options allow tailoring of visual representations to specific analytical needs.
• Graph Database Integration: Integration with a pre-existing graph database of archeogenomic records supports linking and querying heterogeneous genomic and contextual data.
• Data Export and Session Management: Export of map state as high-resolution images and saving of session files enables preservation and sharing of analytical states.

Scientific Applications:

• Population relationships and migration: Exploration of relationships among ancient populations and reconstruction of migration patterns using integrated genomic and contextual data.
• Cultural and anthropological contextualization: Linking genetic findings to archaeological and cultural development to interpret past human behavior and social change.
• Spatio-temporal synthesis of archeogenomic datasets: Construction of time-resolved, geographically explicit narratives of human history and evolution from heterogeneous datasets.

Methodology:

Integration of genomic data (including ancient DNA, aDNA) with archaeological and anthropological metadata via a graph database, followed by generation of spatio-temporal visualizations using map-based multilayer displays (bubble charts, pie charts, heatmaps, tag clouds) with clustering, filtering, and export to high-resolution image and session file.