Opossum vs Koala LastZ results

Opossum (Monodelphis domestica, ASM229v1) and Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus, phaCin_unsw_v4.1) were aligned using the LastZ alignment algorithm (LastZ) in Ensembl release 98. Opossum 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

ParameterOpossumKoala
Chunk size10,100,00010,100,000
Overlap100,000100,000
Group set size10,100,00010,100,000
Masking options{default_soft_masking => 1}{default_soft_masking => 1}

Statistics over 2,361,647 alignment blocks

Genome coverage (bp) Coding exon coverage (bp)
Opossum

Uncovered: 1,787,768,889 out of 3,600,504,728
Covered: 1,812,735,839 out of 3,600,504,728

Uncovered: 3,142,350 out of 35,083,223
Matches: 28,405,381 out of 35,083,223
Mismatches: 3,344,761 out of 35,083,223
Insertions: 190,731 out of 35,083,223
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 88.9%

Koala

Uncovered: 1,408,047,031 out of 3,192,581,492
Covered: 1,784,534,461 out of 3,192,581,492

Uncovered: 2,317,438 out of 32,338,536
Matches: 26,489,495 out of 32,338,536
Mismatches: 3,337,194 out of 32,338,536
Insertions: 194,409 out of 32,338,536
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 88.2%

Block size distribution

Size range All 2,361,647 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
83,932
546.5 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
238,783
11.5 Mb
23,713
1.6 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
1,371,797
631.5 Mb
85,695
28.5 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
666,079
1.3 Gb
16,717
39.4 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
1,051
15.4 Mb
1,027
24.7 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
5
613.4 kb
254
104.9 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
332
1.3 Gb
10 Mb - 100 Mb
34
476.5 Mb