19. Bioinformatics with Python: Visualizing NGS Quality with FastQC
Writing your own Python scripts to clean data is great for learning, but how do professional bioinformaticians handle 50 million DNA reads at once? They use FastQC! In this video, we jump back into the Linux Terminal to install and run FastQC, the undisputed global standard for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) quality control. We will generate a visual QC report from a FASTQ file and learn how to interpret the famous "Per Base Sequence Quality" boxplots to decide if our data is ready for analysis.
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