Hey Brett,
It could have multiple reasons.
In general, it means that there was a traceback path from a seed or a gap, that couldn’t be connected with one of the so far generated traceback paths. Note, that the traceback is computed incrementally to reduce the space requirements.
If you could send me a simple text file containing the seeds of the seed chain (one seed per row using the <<-operator), that is input to the banded chain alignment function, I could have a look at it and fix the problem.
Also, I opened an issue in github: https://github.com/seqan/seqan/issues/699, for tracking the issue.
Kind regards,
René Rahn
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René Rahn
Ph.D. Student
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Institute of Computer Science
Algorithmic Bioinformatics (ABI)
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Freie Universität Berlin
Takustraße 9
14195 Berlin
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