# Alignment error message

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alignment-error-message/2383
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** mafft
**Created:** [January 2, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alignment-error-message/2383 "2018-01-02T17:38:47Z")
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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/alignment-error-message/2383/24 "2018-02-19T17:57:47Z")

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Thanks @cesteban! This is a tricky one - we aren't the developers of MAFFT, so we aren't experts on how it runs (and more specifically, how it fails!), so it might take us some time to understand what is happening. In the meantime, perhaps the MAFFT team has a support venue you can contact? As well, can you please send along your data - we might be able to experiment with some of the runtime options MAFFT exposes for low-mem environments. Feel free to send a link in a DM to myself, or any other [Forum Admin](https://forum.qiime2.org/about). Thanks! 🦖

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