Avoid division by 0 to determine minhash_kmer_size
#252
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When the estimated identity is 1, we were getting a division by 0, resulting in a
minhash_kmer_size
equal to 8. While this isn't typically problematic for very highly similar regions, it causes issues inside the human centromeres when aligning their HORs. This leads to increased runtime, high memory usage, and inaccurate alignments.Here is an example of a chr10 alignment with an HG002 assembly vs HG002v1.0.1:
Whole wrong region
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