bio-reporting-automated-qc-reports

Testing & Quality

Generates standardized quality control reports by aggregating metrics from FastQC, alignment, and other tools using MultiQC. Use when summarizing QC metrics across samples, creating shareable quality reports, or building automated QC pipelines.

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Automated QC Reports with MultiQC

Basic Usage

# Aggregate all QC outputs in directory
multiqc results/ -o qc_report/

# Specify output name
multiqc results/ -n my_project_qc

# Include specific tools only
multiqc results/ --module fastqc --module star

Supported Tools

MultiQC recognizes outputs from 100+ bioinformatics tools:

Category	Tools
Read QC	FastQC, fastp, Cutadapt
Alignment	STAR, HISAT2, BWA, Bowtie2
Quantification	featureCounts, Salmon, kallisto
Variant Calling	bcftools, GATK
Single-cell	CellRanger, STARsolo

Configuration

Create multiqc_config.yaml:

title: "RNA-seq QC Report"
subtitle: "Project XYZ"
intro_text: "QC metrics for all samples"

# Custom sample name cleaning
extra_fn_clean_exts:
  - '.sorted'
  - '.dedup'

# Report sections to include
module_order:
  - fastqc
  - star
  - featurecounts

# Highlight samples
table_cond_formatting_rules:
  pct_mapped:
    fail: [{lt: 50}]
    warn: [{lt: 70}]

Custom Data

# Add custom data file
# File format: sample\tmetric1\tmetric2
multiqc results/ --data-format tsv --custom-data-file custom_metrics.tsv

Python API

from multiqc import run as multiqc_run

# Run programmatically
multiqc_run(analysis_dir='results/', outdir='qc_report/')

Related Skills

read-qc/quality-reports - Generate input FastQC reports
read-qc/fastp-workflow - Preprocessing QC
workflows/rnaseq-to-de - Full workflow with QC