spades; Failed to align paired reads

Question

[dogdif]

I ran spades with this command line

./spades.py -k 21,33,55,77,99,127 --careful --only-assembler -1 11-0910_S7_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz -2 11-0910_S7_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz -o 11_0911

and at the end

======= 
SPAdes pipeline finished WITH WARNINGS!
===
Error correction and assembling warnings:
 * 0:00:04.945     4M / 8M    WARN    General                 (dataset_processor.cpp     : 256)   Failed to align paired reads /Users/apple/Desktop/SPAdes-3.6.2-Darwin/bin/11-0910_S7_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz and /Users/apple/Desktop/SPAdes-3.6.2-Darwin/bin/11-0910_S7_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz

What should I do next ?

[piet]

Spades has finished with a warning, but not with an error. Please inspect the content of the output directory ./11_0911 carefully. You will find there a log file and the contigs.

[Nicolas Lichilin]

I also have the same issue... Also I checked the output directory and there is not contigs or scaffolds in it.

I checked also my input data and is OK... the kmer used were -k 15,21,33,55,67,79,91

======= SPAdes pipeline finished abnormally and WITH WARNINGS!

=== Error correction and assembling warnings: * 0:00:01.138 16M / 5G WARN General (kmer_coverage_model.cpp : 382) Failed to determine erroneous kmer threshold. Threshold set to: 0 * 0:00:00.289 16M / 5G WARN General
(kmer_coverage_model.cpp : 217) Too many erroneous kmers, the estimates might be unreliable * 0:00:00.491 16M / 5G WARN
General (simplification.cpp : 530) The determined erroneous connection coverage threshold may be determined improperly * 0:00:00.523 16M / 5G WARN General
(pair_info_count.cpp : 195) Unable to estimate insert size for paired library #0 * 0:00:00.523 16M / 5G WARN General
(pair_info_count.cpp : 201) None of paired reads aligned properly. Please, check orientation of your read pairs. ======= Warnings saved to /Sample_A108/A108_AGTTCC_L004/spades/warnings.log

As soon as I leave default parameters or reduced the last 91 kmer the error disappeared. I don't know exactly why this happened but, it seems to works now.

Cheers.

[piet]

Spades warns you, that the coverage with K91 is too low. Note that coverage decreases with increasing kmer size. Do not run with large kmers if you do not have enough coverage.