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Human vs Makobe Island cichlid LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Makobe Island cichlid (Pundamilia nyererei, PunNye1.0) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 94. 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)3000
Threshold for gapped extension (L)3000
Threshold for alignments between gapped alignment blocks (H)2200
Seed and Transition value (T)1
Scoring matrix (Q)
Default:
     A    C    G    T
    91 -114  -31 -123
  -114  100 -125  -31
   -31 -125  100 -114
  -123  -31 -114   91

Chunking parameters

ParameterHumanMakobe Island cichlid
Chunk size30,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options

Statistics over 248,013 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 3,064,812,061 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 34,938,657 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 17,682,220 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 14,245,613 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 6,283,291 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 360,630 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 68.2%

Makobe Island cichlid

Uncovered: 796,634,262 out of 830,133,247
Covered: 33,498,985 out of 830,133,247

Uncovered: 12,785,894 out of 35,984,801
Matches: 15,943,431 out of 35,984,801
Mismatches: 6,838,092 out of 35,984,801
Insertions: 417,384 out of 35,984,801
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 68.7%

Block size distribution

Size range All 248,013 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
1,640
7.2 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
50,360
3.8 Mb
15,364
1.2 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
193,845
38.7 Mb
79,857
24.1 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
2,131
3.5 Mb
9,840
19.4 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
36
630.0 kb
99
1.6 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1
100.2 kb
3
350.4 kb