FastQC - high throughput sequence QC analysis tool
SYNOPSIS
- fastqc seqfile1 seqfile2 .. seqfileN
- fastqc [-o output dir] [--(no)extract] [-f fastq|bam|sam]
- [-c contaminant file] seqfile1 .. seqfileN
- FastQC reads a set of sequence files and produces from each one a quality
control report consisting of a number of different modules, each one of
which will help to identify a different potential type of problem in your
data.
- If no files to process are specified on the command line then the program
will start as an interactive graphical application. If files are provided
on the command line then the program will run with no user interaction
required. In this mode it is suitable for inclusion into a standardised
analysis pipeline.
- The options for the program as as follows:
- -h --help
- Print this help file and exit
- -v --version
- Print the version of the program and exit
- -o --outdir
- Create all output files in the specified output directory. Please note
that this directory must exist as the program will not create it. If this
option is not set then the output file for each sequence file is created
in the same directory as the sequence file which was processed.
- --casava
- Files come from raw casava output. Files in the same sample group
(differing only by the group number) will be analysed as a set rather than
individually. Sequences with the filter flag set in the header will be
excluded from the analysis. Files must have the same names given to them
by casava (including being gzipped and ending with .gz) otherwise they
won't be grouped together correctly.
- If set then the zipped output file will be uncompressed in the same
directory after it has been created. By default this option will be set if
fastqc is run in non-interactive mode.
- -j --java
- Provides the full path to the java binary you want to use to launch
fastqc. If not supplied then java is assumed to be in your path.
- Do not uncompress the output file after creating it. You should set this
option if you do not wish to uncompress the output when running in
non-interactive mode.
- --nogroup
- Disable grouping of bases for reads >50bp. All reports will show data
for every base in the read. WARNING: Using this option will cause fastqc
to crash and burn if you use it on really long reads, and your plots may
end up a ridiculous size. You have been warned!
- -f --format
- Bypasses the normal sequence file format detection and forces the program
to use the specified format. Valid formats are
bam,sam,bam_mapped,sam_mapped and fastq
- -t --threads
- Specifies the number of files which can be processed simultaneously. Each
thread will be allocated 250MB of memory so you shouldn't run more threads
than your available memory will cope with, and not more than 6 threads on
a 32 bit machine
- -c
- Specifies a non-default file which contains the list of
- --contaminants
- contaminants to screen overrepresented sequences against. The file must
contain sets of named contaminants in the form name[tab]sequence. Lines
prefixed with a hash will be ignored.
- -k --kmers
- Specifies the length of Kmer to look for in the Kmer content module.
Specified Kmer length must be between 2 and 10. Default length is 5 if not
specified.
- -q --quiet
- Suppress all progress messages on stdout and only report errors.
- Any bugs in fastqc should be reported either to
simon.andrews@babraham.ac.uk or in
www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/bugzilla/
- This manpage was created using help2man by Andreas Tille
<tille@debian.org> for the Debian distribution but can be used by
others as well.