Mm9 multiple alignment

To avoid artifacts in downstream processing of the UCSC multiple alignments, it is important to be careful on the use of the parameters used in the blastz processing pipeline. There are a number of steps in the pipeline and a variety of tunable parameters involved. This page will track the various parameters used in the alignments as they proceed toward the completion of a multiple alignment conservation track on the mm9 mouse (NCBI build 37) assembly

blastz alignment parameters and results

sequence	distance	axtChain minScore	axtChain linearGap	% of mm9 matched	% of other matched by mm9	done
rat rn4	0.1587	3000	medium	68.357	69.541	16 August
human hg18	0.4667	3000	medium	38.499	35.201	16 August

matrix parameters

The "medium" gap score matrix, tuned for the mouse-human distance is:

tableSize    11
smallSize   111
position  1   2   3   11  111  2111  12111  32111   72111  152111  252111
qGap    350 425 450  600  900  2900  22900  57900  117900  217900  317900
tGap    350 425 450  600  900  2900  22900  57900  117900  217900  317900
bothGap 750 825 850 1000 1300  3300  23300  58300  118300  218300  318300

The "loose" gap score matrix, tuned for the chicken-human distance is:

tablesize    11
smallSize   111
position  1   2   3   11  111  2111  12111  32111  72111  152111  252111
qGap    325 360 400  450  600  1100   3600   7600  15600   31600   56600
tGap    325 360 400  450  600  1100   3600   7600  15600   31600   56600
bothGap 625 660 700  750  900  1400   4000   8000  16000   32000   57000