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Cutadapt

Finds and removes adapter sequences, primers, poly-A tails, and other types of unwanted sequences

https://cutadapt.readthedocs.io/

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.

The module also understands logs saved by Trim Galore, which contain cutadapt logs.

File search patterns

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