FastQC aims to provide a simple way to do some quality control checks on raw sequence data coming from high throughput sequencing pipelines. It provides a modular set of analyses which you can use to give a quick impression of whether your data has any problems of which you should be aware before doing any further analysis.

The main functions of FastQC are

• Import of data from BAM, SAM or FastQ files (any variant)
• Providing a quick overview to tell you in which areas there may be problems
• Summary graphs and tables to quickly assess your data
• Export of results to an HTML based permanent report
• Offline operation to allow automated generation of reports without running the interactive application

Original website

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Andrews, S. (2010). FastQC:  A Quality Control Tool for High Throughput Sequence Data [Online]. Available online at: http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/

• (2015), "FastQC," https://qubeshub.org/resources/fastqc.

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1. data analysis
2. high throughput sequence data
3. quality control
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