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Japanese medaka HdrR vs Mexican tetra LastZ results

Japanese medaka HdrR (Oryzias latipes, ASM223467v1) and Mexican tetra (Astyanax mexicanus, Astyanax_mexicanus-2.0) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 94. Japanese medaka HdrR 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

ParameterJapanese medaka HdrRMexican tetra
Chunk size10,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options{default_soft_masking => 1}{default_soft_masking => 1}

Statistics over 228,484 alignment blocks

Genome coverage (bp) Coding exon coverage (bp)
Japanese medaka HdrR

Uncovered: 682,867,206 out of 734,057,086
Covered: 51,189,880 out of 734,057,086

Uncovered: 11,159,217 out of 40,334,262
Matches: 20,932,316 out of 40,334,262
Mismatches: 7,709,100 out of 40,334,262
Insertions: 533,629 out of 40,334,262
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 71.7%

Mexican tetra

Uncovered: 1,289,723,950 out of 1,335,239,194
Covered: 45,515,244 out of 1,335,239,194

Uncovered: 17,322,411 out of 42,605,471
Matches: 18,172,191 out of 42,605,471
Mismatches: 6,661,518 out of 42,605,471
Insertions: 449,351 out of 42,605,471
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 71.9%

Block size distribution

Size range All 228,484 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
1,466
6.7 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
34,459
2.5 Mb
8,743
642.3 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
189,075
45.6 Mb
44,493
13.7 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
3,474
5.7 Mb
10,043
26.6 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
9
124.3 kb
604
11.6 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1
106.4 kb
10
1.3 Mb