Hello Assaf,

One of our engineers has this comment for you:

"Many of the other significant hits will be in the chain tables. If 
there is more than one chain for the same region in the reference 
sequence, chances are it is a duplication in the other species. 
Similarly, to find duplications in the reference, the self-chain can be 
used, or the chains to the reference sequence in the other assembly can 
be used."

Note that the Self Chain table is in the "Variation and Repeats" track 
group, not with the other chains in the "Comparative Genomics" track 
group.  You may also be interested in the pairwise alignment data 
available for download from 
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html.  Click on the species you 
are using for reference, then look for the links under "Pairwise 
Alignments."

--
Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group



On 08/28/11 07:12, asas asasa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> About the multiz genomic alignments (I use those downloaded from the table
> browser in maf format):
> 
> I understand each aligned sequence represent the "best" hit to the reference
> genomic segment.Is there a way to compare the best hit to other less
> significant hits, in order to know whether the best hit is significantly
> better than other hits ?
> More generally, my problem is to find a simple way to exclude from my
> analyses alignments where it is not clear if the aligned sequences are real
> orthologs.
> 
> Best,
> Assaf
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