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Minia was killed when counting kmer and abundance-min choice

Hi guys,

I am running minia on two machine. One of them was killed during counting kmer. The machine is ~700GB memory and I have ITB disk for the output. The genome is human-size with 100x data. The data was trimed and error corrected. The last message of the log is "MB EXCEPTION: Pool allocation failed for 74 bytes (bank ids alloc). Current usage is 4154491796 and capacity is 4154491854". What is the problem? I tried three times, it is the same. I even recompile the minia.

The second one is a plant genome about 1,7GB, also with 100x. The data was trimed and error corrected. I used the kmergenie to find the best k, is 91 and the coverage cut-off is 1. But I run minia with default abundance-min, and the result is very bad. Should I set abundance-min to 1? And why the kmergenie suggest coverage cut-off is 1? Is it because all the preprocess I have done?

Thanks!

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Which version of Minia? Which version of KmerGenie?

See here, you probably want to increase min_abundance.

Given the error "Pool alloc.." reported, it is a newer version than in then previous link.

- How many input files did you give, is it a large number?

- Coverage cutoff of 1 is always going to give bad results, I recommend at least 2. Kmergenie may recommend 1 if it sees that the coverage is low. What do the kmergenie histograms look like?

Sorry, I haven't see the reply (new in biostar).

  1. I am sure the number of input files is below 10.

  2. But the sequencing coverage is more than 100. Is it caused by I keep all the short reads after trimming? Should I remove all the reads shorter than the recommend kmer?

Hi, sorry. I don't know my question have answer.

Minia is 2.0.3, Kmergenie is 1.6982.

I tried the default (2) and the one kmergenis suggested (1), both give me very bad results. The total length just cover half of the genome.

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