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Human vs Pika LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Pika (Ochotona princeps, OchPri2.0-Ens) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 76. 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

ParameterHumanPika
Chunk size30,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,000
Masking options{default_soft_masking => 1}

Statistics over 1,339,006 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 2,258,087,149 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 841,663,569 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 6,603,466 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 26,095,296 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 5,301,364 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 571,628 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 81.6%

Pika

Uncovered: 4,016,619,618 out of 4,781,903,803
Covered: 765,284,185 out of 4,781,903,803

Uncovered: 6,449,875 out of 26,511,260
Matches: 17,133,553 out of 26,511,260
Mismatches: 2,870,769 out of 26,511,260
Insertions: 57,063 out of 26,511,260
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 85.4%

Block size distribution

Size range All 1,339,006 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
13,454
89.7 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
120,767
7.1 Mb
15,141
1.1 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
929,908
421.0 Mb
103,940
45.8 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
274,834
449.5 Mb
67,401
181.2 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
43
516.0 kb
7,963
252.7 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1,816
390.2 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
6
7.3 Mb