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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2011 Mar;CHAPTER:Unit11.8. doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bi1108s33

Table 11.8.2.

Most common encountered problems and likely solutions.

Problem Potential solution
Bank path already exists Supply bank-transact -f flag or delete existing bank
Segmentation fault (memory error) Sample down reads or increase system memory
Input File not properly formatted Refer to converter utility toAmos
Few or no overlaps found Decrease minimum overlap size
Highly fragmented assembly Increase error rate, trim reads, error correction, run Bambus 2.0