yes, it is common that the blat output
is further filtered by some method.

-Galt


On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Micha Sammeth wrote:

> 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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