v0.2.3 - 2020/12/22

The correct files to download are either falco-0.2.3.zip or falco-0.2.3.tar.gz
Please do not download the "Source code" files automatically generated by github, as they do not contain all files necessary for compilation

This release resolves the following issues:

• HTML reports were fixed in cases where certain positions in the tile x position matrix did not contain any values. Their z-scores are defaulted to zero
• When multiple files are given as input, previous versions were causing problems where only the last given dataset had output files generated. This release resolves this issue
• Color heatmaps in HTML the "per tile sequence quality" are now more consistent with FastQC, where red and blue shading only depend on the absolute z-score value, and not on the z-score value distribution within the dataset. This makes the meaning of "red" or "blue" clearer, and consistent with whether the file passes or fails the module assessment.

v0.2.2 -2020/09/13

The correct files to download are either v0.2.2.zip or v0.2.2.tar.gz
Please do not download the "Source code" files automatically generated by github!

This release addresses some issues found on verision 0.2.1 that were reported by users:

Issues #4 and #7 : The format of fastqc_data.txt was corrected to be parsable by MultiQC version 1.9

Issue #8 : Falco now displays a hot-cold heatmap with absolute color values that do not depend on the z-score distribution of the samples: tile-position qualities will be shown as light blue when quality is around 0, dark blue when quality approaches +10, and red when it approaches -10. This allows the heatmap to be usable in highlighting the specific tiles that failed the QC test (i.e. the ones closest to the red color)

Issue #9 : A bug was fixed where falco would crash if a larger read was shown later in a dataset with the same tile value as a previous shorter read.

This release will soon be added to bioconda.

v0.2.1 - 2019/12/12

This release gets rid of the template.html file in the Configuration directory. An html template is no longer required for the program to run. Major changes in the source code also make it more readable. All "magic" constants used throughout the program are centralized in the Constants namespace in the FalcoConfig.hpp file.

v0.2 - 2019/11/26

Changes in version 0.2:

• Fixed several problems in per tile sequence quality. Visualization in the html report also shows the y axis in heatmap as categorical instead of numeric.
• Fixed bugs in adapter content. We now give an exact percentage of adapters in each position, and output is consistent with FastQC.
• Base groups in per base sequence quality are more consistent with FastQC. We now use linear base groups instead of exponential base groups from previous version.
• Added a -B or --bisulfite flag, not included in fastqc, to test for Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing data. When the -B flag is raised, per base sequence content will only compare A with G and (A+T) with (G+C) as pass/warn/fail criteria. It will also display two extra columns in the text output with A+T and G+C percentages for each base position.
• Added a -v or --version flag similar to FastQC, which simply prints the program version.

v0.1.1 - 2019/11/21

Changelog:

• Updated documentation, -O3 flag is instructed to be default when running ./configure
• benchmark directory no longer added to the tarball

v0.1 - 2019/10/28

Accurate adapter estimator just from kmer counts