Description

This track displays the level of conservation for each of 12 zoo species based on blastz pairwise alignments.

Methods

Blastz pairwise alignments were performed between the NISC-generated sequence for each species and the UCSC compiled human reference sequence. All sequences were RepeatMasked, with repetitive sequences denoted by lower-case letters. The blastz program will not initiate alignments within repetative regions, but it will extend alignments into repetitive regions.

Gray horizontal bars denote a mapping/sequencing gap. A percent identity less than 50% is not shown since it falls below the minimum y-axis value.

Credits

Many thanks to Elliott Margulies for running the blastz alignments, putting the data in the proper format, and for helpful discussions.