Credits

Original FastQC

Written by Simon Andrews at Babraham Bioinformatics.

github.com/s-andrews/FastQC

Rust rewrite

By Phil Ewels (@ewels). This rewrite was developed with the assistance of AI (Claude Code by Anthropic).

github.com/ewels/FastQC-Rust

Citation

If you use FastQC in your research, please cite the original project, not this rewrite. The analysis, algorithms, and scientific contribution are entirely the work of Simon Andrews.

License

Both versions are licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Dependencies

• clap — CLI argument parsing
• noodles — BAM/SAM reading
• flate2 — gzip decompression
• rayon — parallel file processing
• resvg + tiny-skia — SVG to PNG rendering
• statrs — statistical distributions
• hdf5-pure — Fast5/HDF5 nanopore support

Font: Liberation Sans (SIL Open Font License), bundled for consistent chart rendering.