RastQC v0.1.0
Initial release of RastQC — a fast, Rust-based quality control tool for high-throughput sequencing data.
Highlights
- Streaming parallel pipeline: 2–3× faster than FastQC
- Short-read QC (FASTQ)
- Long-read support with Nanopore Fast5/POD5 formats (
rastqc-nanopore) - Now available on Bioconda:
conda install -c bioconda rastqc # short-read
conda install -c bioconda rastqc-nanopore # with Nanopore supportInstallation
See the README for full install instructions.
Citation
Huang KL. RastQC: A fast, Rust-based quality control tool for high-throughput sequencing data. bioRxiv (2026).