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FastQC

FastQC is a software module available on Comet.

FastQC overview

To access FastQC on Comet, run module load FastQC. This will load the default version of FastQC.

An overview of the module information is shown below (module -r spider ^FastQC$): 

FastQC:
    Description:
      FastQC is a quality control application for high throughput sequence data. It reads in sequence data in a variety of formats and
      can either provide an interactive application to review the results of several different QC checks, or create an HTML based report
      which can be integrated into a pipeline.

     Versions:
        FastQC/0.11.9-Java-11
        FastQC/0.12.1-Java-11

  For detailed information about a specific "FastQC" package (including how to load the modules) use the module's full name.
  Note that names that have a trailing (E) are extensions provided by other modules.
  For example:

     $ module spider FastQC/0.12.1-Java-11

If there are multiple versions of FastQC listed, then you can load a specific version as follows: 

$ module load FastQC/version_string

You can find the most up to date information whilst logged on to Comet by running module -r spider ^FastQC$.

FastQC Help

The module FastQC has the following embedded help text (module help FastQC): 

Description
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FastQC is a quality control application for high throughput
sequence data. It reads in sequence data in a variety of formats and can either
provide an interactive application to review the results of several different
QC checks, or create an HTML based report which can be integrated into a
pipeline.

More information
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 - Homepage: https://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/

FastQC Dependencies

The default version of the module FastQC has the following dependencies:

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