This directory contains alignments of the zebrafish assembly
(danRer1, Nov. 2003) to the human assembly (hg17, May 2004).
Files included in this directory:
- axtTight directory: contains a highly conserved subset of the best
alignments for any part of the human genome.
- axtNet directory: contains chained and netted alignments, i.e. the
best chains in the genome, with gaps in the best chains filled in
by next-best chains where possible.
- zebrafish.chain.gz: chained blastz alignments. The chain format is
described in http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/chain.html.
- zebrafish.net.gz: "net" file that describes rearrangements between
the species and the best zebrafish match to any part of the human
genome. The net format is described in
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/net.html.
The alignments in the axtTight and axtNet directories are in "axt"
format. For a description, see
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/axt.html.
The alignments were produced by the blastz alignment program, which
is available from Webb Miller's lab at Penn State University
(http://www.bx.psu.edu/miller_lab/). The blastz scoring matrix used was:
A C G T
A 91 -90 -25 -100
C -90 100 -100 -25
G -25 -100 100 -90
T -100 -25 -90 91
with a gap open penalty of 400 and a gap extension penalty of 30. The
minimum score for an alignment to be kept was 5,000 for the first pass
and 2200 for the second pass, which restricted the search space to the
regions between two alignments found in the first pass.
Each chromosome was divided into 10,000,000 base chunks for the blastz
alignments and all repeats for each organism were used as lineage-specific
repeats. Repeats were detected with Arian Smit's RepeatMasker program using
a zebrafish repeats library. The .lav format blastz output, which does not
include the sequence, was converted to .axt with lavToAxt. Low scores can
occur using the scoring matrix above and with repeats abridged; therefore,
alignments were rescored using PSU's restore_rpts program and the default
scoring matrix:
A C G T
A 91 -114 -31 -123
C -114 100 -125 -31
G -31 -125 100 -114
T -123 -31 -114 91
For chaining, the axtChain linearGap option was used to specify gap
penalties:
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
The axtNet alignments were processed with chainNet, netSyntenic,
and netClass written by Jim Kent at UCSC.
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If you plan to download a large file or multiple files from this
directory, we recommend you use ftp rather than downloading the files
via our website. To do so, ftp to hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu, then go to
the directory goldenPath/hg17/vsDanRer1/. To download multiple
files, use the "mget" command:
mget <filename1> <filename2> ...
- or -
mget -a (to download all the files in the directory)
All the files in this directory are freely available for public use.
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References
Chiaromonte, F., Yap, V.B., and Miller, W. Scoring pairwise genomic
sequence alignments. Pac Symp Biocomput 2002;115-26.
Kent, W.J., Baertsch, R., Hinrichs, A., Miller, W., and Haussler, D.
Evolution's cauldron: Duplication, deletion, and rearrangement in the
mouse and human genomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100(20):11484-11489
Sep 30 2003.
Schwartz, S., Kent, W.J., Smit, A., Zhang, Z., Baertsch, R., Hardison, R.,
Haussler, D., and Miller, W. Human-mouse alignments with BLASTZ</A>.
Genome Res. 13(1):103-7 (2003).
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zebrafish.net.gz 2004-09-17 15:59 17M
zebrafish.chain.gz 2004-09-17 15:59 444M