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Cutadapt

Supported Tool

Cutadapt is a tool to find and remove adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput sequencing reads.

Description

The Cutadapt module parses results generated by Cutadapt, a tool to find and remove adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails and other types of unwanted sequence from your high-throughput sequencing reads.

This module should be able to parse logs from a wide range of versions of Cutadapt. It works with both the regular Cutadapt report output and also with JSON reports (--json).

Although the module parsing code works with very old log files, if you are working with ancient versions (such as v1.2) you may need to change the search pattern to the following:

sp:
  cutadapt:
    contents: "cutadapt version"

See the module search patterns section of the MultiQC documentation for more information.

File search patterns

cutadapt:
  - contents: This is cutadapt
    num_lines: 100
  - fn: "*.json"
    contents: Cutadapt report