FastC

A quality control tool for high throughput sequence data coming from fasta files

FastC aims to provide a simple way to do some quality control checks on treated sequence data. It is similar to FastQC allowing a comparative study between raw and processed data.

FastC README version 0.9

Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation

Overview

FastC aims to provide a simple way to do some quality control checks on treated 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. It is similar to FastQC allowing a comparative study between raw and processed data.

The main functions of FastC are

1) Import of data from Fasta file
2) Summary graphs and tables to quickly assess your data
3) Output PDF report

Operating system

Linux

Kernel

32 and 64 bits

Pre-installation

You need to have gnuplot, imagemagick and to update glibc to 2.14

Installation

    sudo git clone https://github.com/rodriguez-salarichs/FastC
    cd FastC
    tar -xzvf FastC.tar.gz
    cd FastC
    sudo ./INSTALL  [ By default, FastC and its binary are installed at /usr/local and /usr/bin respectively ]
    
    
    sudo ./INSTALL [Options]

    OPTIONS:

     --prefix=/DESTINATION/DIRECTORY

     --bindir=DIR           user executable [/usr/bin]
     --help                 Print this help file and exit

Example

You can find an example input file at /DESTINATION/DIRECTORY/FastC/example