Description

This track indicates any pair of exactly identical sequence on each side of gaps for the 26 Apr 2016 Mus musculus domesticus (western European house mouse)/GCA_001624835.1_WSB_EiJ_v1 genome assembly.
Where gaps are any run of N's, including a single N. The end of an upstream sequence before the gap is duplicated exactly at the beginning of the downstream sequence following the gap in the assembly.
The predictions are based on the genome sequence alone.

Item count: 19,353; Bases covered: 1,303,838,398

Methods

These duplicate sequences were found by taking 1,000 bases before and after each gap and aligned with the blat command:

  blat -q=dna -minIdentity=95 -repMatch=10 upstreamContig.fa downstreamContig.fa
Filtering the PSL output for a perfect match, no mis-matches, and therefore of equal size matching sequence, where the alignment ends exactly at the end of the upstream sequence, and begins exactly at the start of the downstream sequence.

Credits

Thank you to Joel Armstrong and Benedict Paten of the Computational Genomics Lab at the U.C. Santa Cruz Genomics Institute for identifying this characteristic of genome assemblies.

The data and presentation of this track were prepared by Hiram Clawson, U.C. Santa Cruz Genomics Institute