FQStat: a parallel architecture for very high-speed assessment of sequencing quality metrics

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 1 Feature comparison between FQStat and similar QC tools

Feature\Tool	FQStat	FaQCs	NGS QC Box	NGS QC ToolKit	RNA-QC-Chain	ClinQC
Lane-level statistics	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Experiment-level statistics	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Trimming and filtering	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Comparison of multiple datasets	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Sample flagging	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Parallel programing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Support compressed files	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Graphical output	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multithreading	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Multiple processing for a single file (MPSF)	Yes	Yes/No*	No	Yes	Yes	No
Multiple processing for multiple files (MPMF)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Concurrent implementation of MPSF and MPMF	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Memory requirement	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Memory optimization	Yes	No	N/A	N/A	Yes	Yes
Automated resource optimization	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No

*FaQCs divides a single file into split files and each split file is run on different processors but if the number of processors is more than the number of split files, then a split file is not processed by multiple processes

ISSN: 1471-2105