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Human vs Gorilla LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorGor4) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 91. Human was used as the reference species. After running LastZ, the raw LastZ alignment blocks were chained according to their location in both genomes. During the final netting process, the best sub-chain was chosen in each region on the reference species.

Configuration parameters

ParameterValue
Gap open penalty (O)400
Gap extend penalty (E)30
HSP threshold (K)5000
Threshold for gapped extension (L)5000
Threshold for alignments between gapped alignment blocks (H)3000
Masking count (M)10
Seed and Transition value (T)1
Scoring matrix (Q)
Primate:
    A    C    G    T
   90 -330 -236 -356
 -330  100 -318 -236
 -236 -318  100 -330
 -356 -236 -330   90

Chunking parameters

ParameterHumanGorilla
Chunk size30,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options{default_soft_masking => 1}{default_soft_masking => 1}

Statistics over 260,136 alignment blocks

Genome coverage (bp) Coding exon coverage (bp)
Human

Uncovered: 299,394,418 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 2,800,356,300 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 259,048 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 36,884,100 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 1,397,775 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 30,831 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 96.3%

Gorilla

Uncovered: 338,733,665 out of 3,063,362,794
Covered: 2,724,629,129 out of 3,063,362,794

Uncovered: 558,999 out of 34,567,330
Matches: 33,646,106 out of 34,567,330
Mismatches: 344,900 out of 34,567,330
Insertions: 17,325 out of 34,567,330
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 98.9%

Block size distribution

Size range All 260,136 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
2,552
14.0 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
21,006
1.1 Mb
7,172
408.6 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
55,125
22.5 Mb
16,893
5.8 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
95,334
415.1 Mb
11,420
37.7 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
85,060
2.3 Gb
2,287
56.6 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1,059
130.8 Mb
363
81.7 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
9
15.6 Mb
10 Mb - 100 Mb
27
1.5 Gb
100 Mb - 1 Gb
8
1.2 Gb