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Hi I have downloaded my genomes and they wont work it comes as error and there is a gap in the alignment I will put it below

Running alignment.
Executing 
  mauveAligner
    --output=C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\k-12
    --island-size=50
    --island-output=C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\k-12.islands
    --backbone-size=50
    --max-backbone-gap=50
    --backbone-output=C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\k-12.backbone
    --id-matrix=C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\k-12.id_matrix
    --output-alignment=C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\k-12.alignment
    --output-guide-tree=C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\k-12.guide_tree
    C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\Ecoli k-12 mg1655
    C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\Ecoli k-12 mg1655.sslist
    C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\Ecoli k-12 mg1655 Boston.gb
    C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\Ecoli k-12 mg1655 Boston.gb.sslist
ERROR! gap character encountered at genome sequence position 21Sequence file appears corrupt, proceeding with caution

Input sequences must be unaligned and ungapped!
Sequence loaded successfully.
C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\Ecoli k-12 mg1655 5792691 base pairs.
Sequence loaded successfully.
C:\Users\K1807836\Downloads\Ecoli k-12 mg1655 Boston.gb 4643559 base pairs.
Using weight 15 mers for initial seeds
Creating sorted mer list
Crap.  It's broke, return value 1
Error creating sorted mer list
Exited with error code: -1073741819

Help, please! What does this mean?

mauve

Hi and welcome. of course it's about "bioinformatics", please change the title and the tags to something meaningful related to your problem.

It is safer not to use spaces in filenames. Convert Ecoli k-12 mg1655 to Ecoli_k-12_mg1655.

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