Hi Galt,

thank you for the quick answer, I prefer programs to scripts. Did I 
understand correctly that the sketched scenario of 10% of a trancript 
aligning with the same identity as 100% of a transcript and both 
alignments are kept occurs at UCSC? Is it frequent?

Thank you, micha.


En/na Galt Barber ha escrit:
>
> Percent Identity only applies regions aligned.
> Gaps are not considered aligned regions of course.
>
> You are interested in the level of coverage.
> You can use utilities like pslReps and pslCDnaFilter
> to post-filter your BLAT psl results.  You can also
> just write your own script to filter it however you like.
>
> You might also try the BLAT options -maxGap=0 and -fastMap.
>
> -Galt
>
>
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Micha Sammeth wrote:
>
>> Hello helpdesk,
>>
>> I have again a curiosity concerning blat alignments. I consider the case
>> BM451627. It was for some reasons not in the dataset of hg17, so I
>> downloaded the sequence and ran a blat  -stepSize=5 -minScore=0
>> -minIdentity=0, which should correspond to the settings used at UCSC.
>> Checking idendity, I find the highest score of about 20% sequence
>> identity -- match/query length -- it also does not change much when
>> additionally taking into account repmatch.
>>
>> However, I found BM451627 in the UCSC hg16 database, where it reports a
>> ~98% identity match. Looking closer at the alignment, in hg16 there is a
>> ~150nt stretch from the 1244nt which aligns with 98% identity --- and
>> probably a couple of bases that changed from hg16->hg17 are responsible
>> that in this 150nt region sequence identity drops below the threshold of
>> 96%.
>>
>> My question now is:
>>
>> Does this hold for all identities, say a transcript aligns with 1000 nt
>> and 98% identity in one place and in another place with 100nt at 98%
>> will be put in both places, regardless of the coverage of the transcript
>> by the alignment? In other words, the identity criterion of 96% or 0.5%
>> of the best alignment is applied to match/(Qend-Qstart)? And if so, what
>> was the motivation to not take the "global identity" of the query, did
>> you have bad experiences with transcripts that did not want to align
>> that way?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> micha.
>>
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