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
References:
- FastQC is developed by Simon Andrews, Babraham Bioinformatics.
- Module Name: fastqc (see the modules page for more information)
Allocate an interactive session and run the program. Sample session:
[user@biowulf]$ sinteractive salloc.exe: Pending job allocation 46116226 salloc.exe: job 46116226 queued and waiting for resources salloc.exe: job 46116226 has been allocated resources salloc.exe: Granted job allocation 46116226 salloc.exe: Waiting for resource configuration salloc.exe: Nodes cn3144 are ready for job [user@cn3144 ~]$ module load fastqc [user@cn3144 ~]$ fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN [user@cn3144 ~]$ exit salloc.exe: Relinquishing job allocation 46116226 [user@biowulf ~]$
Create a batch input file (e.g. fastqc.sh). For example:
#!/bin/bash set -e module load fastqc fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN
Submit this job using the Slurm sbatch command.
sbatch --mem=10g fastqc.sh
Create a swarmfile (e.g. fastqc.swarm). For example:
cd dir1;fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN cd dir2;fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN cd dir3;fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN cd dir4;fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN cd dir5;fastqc -o output_dir [-f fastq|bam|sam] -c contaminant_file seqfile1 .. seqfileN
Submit this job using the swarm command.
swarm -f fastqc.swarm -g 10 --module fastqcwhere
-g # | Number of Gigabytes of memory required for each process (1 line in the swarm command file) |
--module fastqc | Loads the fastqc module for each subjob in the swarm |