Human vs Megabat LastZ results

Human (Homo sapiens, GRCh38) and Megabat (Pteropus vampyrus, pteVam1) 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

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

Statistics over 1,597,067 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 1,744,071,614 out of 3,099,750,718
Covered: 1,355,679,104 out of 3,099,750,718

Uncovered: 3,591,624 out of 38,571,754
Matches: 29,867,451 out of 38,571,754
Mismatches: 4,682,598 out of 38,571,754
Insertions: 430,081 out of 38,571,754
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 85.4%

Megabat

Uncovered: 733,278,485 out of 1,999,614,463
Covered: 1,266,335,978 out of 1,999,614,463

Uncovered: 1,899,900 out of 28,943,432
Matches: 23,917,178 out of 28,943,432
Mismatches: 3,063,613 out of 28,943,432
Insertions: 62,741 out of 28,943,432
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 88.4%

Block size distribution

Size range All 1,597,067 alignment blocks Blocks grouped in nets
# blocks Total size (incl. gaps) # nets Total size (incl. gaps)
1 bp - 10 bp
18,347
119.2 kb
10 bp - 100 bp
130,957
7.7 Mb
19,349
1.3 Mb
100 bp - 1 kb
953,567
438.8 Mb
78,021
30.6 Mb
1 kb - 10 kb
493,817
967.5 Mb
31,849
82.8 Mb
10 kb - 100 kb
379
4.5 Mb
11,020
405.6 Mb
100 kb - 1 Mb
3,783
875.4 Mb
1 Mb - 10 Mb
19
23.0 Mb