Human vs Red fox LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Red fox (Vulpes vulpes, VulVul2.2) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 95. 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
Masking count (M)
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

ParameterHumanRed fox
Chunk size30,000,00010,100,000
Overlap0100,000
Group set size010,100,000
Masking options{default_soft_masking => 1}{default_soft_masking => 1}

Statistics over 2,261,760 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 1,500,312,077 out of 3,096,649,726
Covered: 1,596,337,649 out of 3,096,649,726

Uncovered: 766,149 out of 35,604,148
Matches: 29,683,209 out of 35,604,148
Mismatches: 4,857,762 out of 35,604,148
Insertions: 297,028 out of 35,604,148
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 85.2%

Red fox

Uncovered: 924,476,602 out of 2,421,551,259
Covered: 1,497,074,657 out of 2,421,551,259

Uncovered: 1,804,128 out of 33,405,269
Matches: 27,486,208 out of 33,405,269
Mismatches: 3,879,402 out of 33,405,269
Insertions: 235,531 out of 33,405,269
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 87.0%

Block size distribution

Size range All 2,261,760 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
83,200
553.5 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
274,168
13.0 Mb
18,330
1.2 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
1,352,382
609.5 Mb
58,893
21.6 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
551,402
1.0 Gb
20,624
50.7 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
601
8.4 Mb
1,647
41.3 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
7
832.7 kb
259
95.6 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
269
991.2 Mb
10 Mb - 100 Mb
33
480.6 Mb