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Mouse vs Chinese hamster PICR LastZ results

Mouse (Mus musculus, GRCm39) and Chinese hamster PICR (Cricetulus griseus, CriGri-PICRH-1.0) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 115. 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

ParameterMouseChinese hamster PICR
Chunk size10,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size10,100,00010,100,000
Masking options

Statistics over 1,974,373 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 1,102,520,163 out of 2,728,222,451
Covered: 1,625,702,288 out of 2,728,222,451

Uncovered: 658,982 out of 39,092,596
Matches: 33,887,768 out of 39,092,596
Mismatches: 4,249,159 out of 39,092,596
Insertions: 296,687 out of 39,092,596
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 88.2%

Chinese hamster PICR

Uncovered: 847,448,483 out of 2,366,634,374
Covered: 1,519,185,891 out of 2,366,634,374

Uncovered: 2,939,662 out of 37,747,936
Matches: 31,091,281 out of 37,747,936
Mismatches: 3,517,056 out of 37,747,936
Insertions: 199,937 out of 37,747,936
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 89.3%

Block size distribution

Size range All 1,974,373 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
52,744
340.0 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
203,624
10.5 Mb
25,878
1.8 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
1,136,486
510.6 Mb
88,100
30.4 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
580,462
1.2 Gb
22,797
58.8 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
1,048
13.7 Mb
1,901
42.5 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
9
1.2 Mb
69
21.5 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
51
212.2 Mb
10 Mb - 100 Mb
36
1.4 Gb