# fastqc

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** fastqc
+ **Support Level:** Primary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/](http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/)

## Software Description

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.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load fastqc

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of fastqc available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail fastqc
## Slurm Example


	#!/bin/bash
	#SBATCH --job-name="rfm_RunFASTQCTest_job"
	#SBATCH --ntasks=1
	#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
	#SBATCH --output=rfm_RunFASTQCTest_job.out
	#SBATCH --error=rfm_RunFASTQCTest_job.err
	#SBATCH --time=0:10:0
	#SBATCH -p msismall
	module load fastqc/0.11.7
	fastqc r1.fq r2.fq