Phase 2 — Core Bioinformatics
Module 06

QC & Preprocessing

Every sequencing pipeline starts here — before you align a single read you need to check quality and remove adapter contamination. A bad QC step ruins every downstream result.

Week 8Timeline
~7 hrsStudy time
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What you'll learn

Topics covered in this module

FastQC
MultiQC
Trimmomatic
fastp
FASTQ format
Quality scores

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