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Mouse vs Alpine marmot LastZ results

Mouse (Mus musculus, GRCm39) and Alpine marmot (Marmota marmota marmota, marMar2.1) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 103. Mouse 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

ParameterMouseAlpine marmot
Chunk size10,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options

Statistics over 1,471,190 alignment blocks

Genome coverage (bp) Coding exon coverage (bp)
Mouse

Uncovered: 1,753,208,928 out of 2,728,222,451
Covered: 975,013,523 out of 2,728,222,451

Uncovered: 2,787,156 out of 39,092,596
Matches: 29,553,796 out of 39,092,596
Mismatches: 6,407,006 out of 39,092,596
Insertions: 344,638 out of 39,092,596
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 81.4%

Alpine marmot

Uncovered: 1,556,220,840 out of 2,510,587,379
Covered: 954,366,539 out of 2,510,587,379

Uncovered: 1,959,907 out of 31,034,716
Matches: 24,464,130 out of 31,034,716
Mismatches: 4,406,665 out of 31,034,716
Insertions: 204,014 out of 31,034,716
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 84.1%

Block size distribution

Size range All 1,471,190 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
21,597
144.7 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
135,667
7.3 Mb
11,575
815.1 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
965,232
451.7 Mb
53,485
21.3 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
348,513
604.2 Mb
19,313
43.5 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
178
2.7 Mb
552
14.0 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
3
392.8 kb
156
61.6 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
189
614.9 Mb
10 Mb - 100 Mb
21
310.3 Mb