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Human vs Siamese fighting fish LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens, fBetSpl5.2) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 98. 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

ParameterHumanSiamese fighting fish
Chunk size30,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options

Statistics over 242,069 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 3,067,071,282 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 32,679,436 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 18,368,965 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 13,900,162 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 5,927,470 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 375,157 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 68.8%

Siamese fighting fish

Uncovered: 409,923,371 out of 441,371,523
Covered: 31,448,152 out of 441,371,523

Uncovered: 17,896,893 out of 40,133,352
Matches: 15,283,287 out of 40,133,352
Mismatches: 6,476,326 out of 40,133,352
Insertions: 476,846 out of 40,133,352
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 68.7%

Block size distribution

Size range All 242,069 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
1,585
7.3 kb
1
4.0 bp
10 bp - 100 bp
50,078
3.8 Mb
13,007
984.9 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
188,736
38.1 Mb
69,842
21.8 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
1,661
2.5 Mb
10,174
20.4 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
8
150.2 kb
80
1.2 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1
100.2 kb
2
258.4 kb