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
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

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

Statistics over 1,597,067 alignment blocks

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

Uncovered: 1,740,970,622 out of 3,096,649,726
Covered: 1,355,679,104 out of 3,096,649,726

Uncovered: 2,510,313 out of 35,228,305
Matches: 28,198,642 out of 35,228,305
Mismatches: 4,219,011 out of 35,228,305
Insertions: 300,339 out of 35,228,305
Identity over aligned base-pairs: 86.2%

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: 23,917,183 out of 28,943,432
Mismatches: 3,063,600 out of 28,943,432
Insertions: 62,749 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