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Kmergenie fails to fit models with --diploid settings

I’ve been trying to run kmergenie on a trimmed dataset of MiSeq 2x300 paired end reads (trimmed with trimmomatic), using a list with the forward and reverse, paired and unpaired output from trimmomatic. When I run kmergenie with the normal haploid settings it works fine, but running it with --diploid many of the many of the kmer models are not able to fit the on the histograms (see screenshot of terminal+html files). Any idea why this is?

screenshot of terminal

results without --diploid

results with --diploid

I really would like to be able to fit the diploid models, which I think would improve the kmer estimations, based on the fact that you can clearly see two humps in the histograms.

Hope you can help me out with this.

kmergenie kmer miseq paired-end

1 answer

for the record: Pepijn and I communicated by email, and the diploid model has been improved in recent kmergenie versions, hopefully addressing this issue.

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