Hi Michiel,

We specified M=50 for our lastz run without any other arguments, 
therefore it should have had the defaults of lastz which states L= K == 
3000.

We may have a bug in our creation of the download README file where we 
state L=2200 as a default. We are going to look into it.

Please contact the mail list ([email protected]) again if you have any 
further questions.

Katrina Learned
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 10/30/11 8:08 AM, Michiel de Hoon wrote:
> To answer my own question, the discrepancy appears to be due to a bug in 
> lastz that causes an incorrect value for L to be printed. I have informed the 
> lastz author of this problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Michiel de Hoon
> RIKEN Yokohama
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear UCSC,
>
> To make sure I understand the pairwise genome alignment process, I am trying 
> to regenerate the canFam2-equCab2 alignment. I am getting something close but 
> not quite the same as the alignment available from UCSC.
>
> One thing I was wondering about are the parameters used for the lastz runs. 
> According 
> toftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/canFam2/vsEquCab2/README.txt, 
> K=3000 and L=2200 were used (in addition to O=400 E=30 H=2000 M=50). However, 
> the .net.axt.gz files have the following lines in their header:
>
> ##aligner=lastz.v1.00.05 H=2000  M=50
> ##blastzParms=O=400,E=30,K=3000,L=3000,M=0
>
> suggesting that L=3000 was used instead of L=2200 (I also assume that M=50 
> was used instead of M=0, since we don't remove repeat regions from these 
> genomes before aligning).
>
> Which are the correct lastz parameters to use?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Michiel de Hoon
> RIKEN Omics Science Center, Yokohama
>
>
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