News:FastQC Version 0.11.1 released

Question

[rtliu]

FastQC v0.11.1 is the first release for a long time and is a major update to the package. This release adds some significant new features to the program which will hopefully make it more useful.

The major new features in this release are:

• Added configurable warn/fail thresholds for all modules
• Allow modules to be selectively turned off
• Added a per-tile quality plot for Illumina libraries
• Added an adapter content plot
• Improved the duplication plot
• Improved the Kmer module
• Used embedded graphics in the HTML output so you can distribute a single file
• Added the ability to read data from stdin
• Changed how base grouping works to better accommodate long reads
• Dropped support for Solexa64 format (NB not Phred 64 which is still supported)

http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

This is great news. The duplication plot was one of my pet peeves.

For the help file I would recommend to define with a formula what duplication actually means. I found out the hard way that different interpretations may lead to radically different results:

So What Does The Sequence Duplication Rate Really Mean In A Fastqc Report