Discrepancy for between minimap2 and mm2-fast for assembly alignment

[jdwinkler]

Hi,

Thanks for your work on this optimized version of minimap2, I think it is quite useful. I was recently building out a pipeline involving the pairwise alignment of possibly divergent (~75% ANI) assemblies and noticed that minimap2 and mm2-fast do not give the same result. The underlying command was:

minimap2 -x asm20 assembly_a assembly_b

I know this is not really the intended purpose of minimap2, but I thought it strange that the results were not consistent between your fork and the main branch. I can find example NCBI assemblies to give different results if you want to look into it?

[jdwinkler]

I will also check to make sure I am compare like versions as well, that could potentially be the source of the problem I think.

edit: at 2.24 for both tools, I see different alignments when comparing fragmented MAGs.

[joydddd]

Hi jdwinkler, we're working on accelerating pairwise alignment on GPU and I'm also running into inconsistent results between minimap2 2.24, the algorithm described in the Minimap2 paper, and this mm2-fast kernel. I'm digging into these divergent results. Could you share some example NCBI assemblies with me?

[jdwinkler]

Yes, let me dig those up tomorrow US time and I'll send you a couple public assemblies.