Human vs Koala LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, phaCin_unsw_v4.1) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 96. 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

ParameterHumanKoala
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 550,048 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 2,839,700,421 out of 3,096,649,726
Covered: 256,949,305 out of 3,096,649,726

Uncovered: 4,059,840 out of 35,604,148
Matches: 24,496,520 out of 35,604,148
Mismatches: 6,700,643 out of 35,604,148
Insertions: 347,145 out of 35,604,148
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 77.7%

Koala

Uncovered: 2,950,912,150 out of 3,192,581,492
Covered: 241,669,342 out of 3,192,581,492

Uncovered: 4,555,813 out of 32,338,536
Matches: 21,740,191 out of 32,338,536
Mismatches: 5,679,225 out of 32,338,536
Insertions: 363,307 out of 32,338,536
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 78.3%

Block size distribution

Size range All 550,048 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
1,294
8.1 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
40,283
2.7 Mb
11,209
801.3 kb
100 bp - 1 kb
451,726
184.1 Mb
116,886
49.5 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
56,731
89.8 Mb
32,544
74.9 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
13
196.9 kb
2,073
52.4 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
1
100.0 kb
287
82.3 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
12
16.9 Mb