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Human vs Brown trout LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Brown trout (Salmo trutta, fSalTru1.1) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 99. 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

ParameterHumanBrown trout
Chunk size30,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options

Statistics over 424,187 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 3,061,287,357 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 38,463,361 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 16,254,484 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 15,244,872 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 6,640,765 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 431,633 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 68.3%

Brown trout

Uncovered: 2,306,332,020 out of 2,371,880,186
Covered: 65,548,166 out of 2,371,880,186

Uncovered: 34,578,197 out of 79,685,618
Matches: 31,126,327 out of 79,685,618
Mismatches: 13,017,936 out of 79,685,618
Insertions: 963,158 out of 79,685,618
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 69.0%

Block size distribution

Size range All 424,187 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
3,141
14.0 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
82,770
6.2 Mb
27,803
2.1 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
334,794
68.3 Mb
146,743
43.4 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
3,456
5.4 Mb
16,132
31.6 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
22
944.7 kb
167
3.2 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
4
459.1 kb
7
1.0 Mb