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Human vs Lamprey LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus, Pmarinus_7.0) 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

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

Statistics over 104,310 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 3,082,728,491 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 17,022,227 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 26,949,824 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 7,895,639 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 3,571,746 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 154,545 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 67.9%

Lamprey

Uncovered: 876,368,657 out of 885,550,958
Covered: 9,182,301 out of 885,550,958

Uncovered: 6,160,626 out of 12,541,363
Matches: 4,295,880 out of 12,541,363
Mismatches: 1,973,934 out of 12,541,363
Insertions: 110,923 out of 12,541,363
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 67.3%

Block size distribution

Size range All 104,310 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
356
1.5 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
23,464
1.8 Mb
10,563
814.6 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
79,876
14.7 Mb
46,596
12.3 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
612
911.5 kb
2,520
4.2 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
2
29.2 kb
6
134.1 kb