> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://wiki.latch.bio/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# FastQC

> FastQC aims to provide a simple way to do some quality control checks on raw 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 of which you should be aware before doing any further analysis.

## Quick Start

<Steps>
  <Step title="Go to the Data Page.">
    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/latchbio/H6zlCTun8E59mJDX/images/visualizer/data-tab.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=H6zlCTun8E59mJDX&q=85&s=0fdc42a387215f4becd25d41b6c8448a" className="h-40 border-slate-100 border rounded-md" width="1728" height="1080" data-path="images/visualizer/data-tab.png" />
  </Step>

  <Step title="Upload any sequence data (.fastq, .fasta, or .fastq.gz)." />

  <Step title="Wait a moment - FastQC will run automatically on that file :)" />

  <Step title="Double click the file to open FastQC." />
</Steps>

## Inputs

Any .fastq or .fastq.gz file.

## Outputs

You'll see an interactive .html report that looks like this.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/latchbio/OY3WpKhZ3Sm_DsN1/images/interactive-html.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=OY3WpKhZ3Sm_DsN1&q=85&s=708eace76f2967ce4bf772d4ab1506b1" alt="" width="856" height="740" data-path="images/interactive-html.png" />