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Human vs Spotted gar LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus, LepOcu1) 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

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

Statistics over 221,086 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 3,057,593,263 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 42,157,455 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 15,158,843 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 16,410,059 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 6,626,808 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 376,044 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 70.1%

Spotted gar

Uncovered: 913,885,503 out of 945,878,036
Covered: 31,992,533 out of 945,878,036

Uncovered: 11,606,228 out of 31,448,193
Matches: 13,963,368 out of 31,448,193
Mismatches: 5,577,055 out of 31,448,193
Insertions: 301,542 out of 31,448,193
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 70.4%

Block size distribution

Size range All 221,086 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
733
3.3 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
39,598
3.0 Mb
12,567
944.9 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
178,246
38.7 Mb
75,516
23.2 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
2,493
4.0 Mb
8,988
18.8 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
16
265.3 kb
170
2.8 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1
124.9 kb