QC-Companion

Quality control for next-generation sequencing, with automated assessment, interactive visualisation and professional reporting.

Product overview

Standardised sequencing QC for confident downstream analysis.

QC-Companion streamlines routine sequencing quality control by rapidly identifying the samples that require further investigation. It provides the supporting evidence to investigate QC findings, identify opportunities for assay optimisation and increase confidence in downstream analysis.

QC-Companion results summary with QC overview and warnings
  • Technology and species agnostic
  • Configurable thresholds for pass, warning and fail assessment
  • Routine QC without specialist bioinformatics expertise
  • Interactive BED-aware coverage analysis
  • Automated PDF reports for documentation and record keeping
  • Simplified outputs for downstream investigation
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How QC-Companion works

Run QC. Investigate. Report.

1

Run QC

Upload BAM or FASTQ files and start automated QC.

2

Investigate

Quickly identify quality issues, explore QC metrics and investigate coverage across your assay.

3

Report

Download PDF reports and supporting files.

Capabilities

Everything needed to assess, investigate and document sequencing quality.

QC-Companion supports every stage of the sequencing QC workflow, enabling laboratories to rapidly assess sequencing quality, investigate flagged findings and generate standardised documentation. The screenshots below highlight some of the platform's core capabilities.

QC-Companion run QC upload screen

Flexible QC Workflows

Perform quality assessment on BAM or FASTQ files using configurable assay-specific workflows.

QC-Companion automatically applies the appropriate quality assessment for each file type, generating standardised reports and interactive results.

QC-Companion supporting files download view

Downstream Investigation

Supporting files simplify downstream investigation while providing standardised reports for documentation and collaboration.

QC-Companion coverage analysis view

Rapid QC Interpretation

Results are presented in a consistent, intuitive format that simplifies interpretation and highlights samples requiring further investigation.

QC-Companion integrated genome browser view

Assay Performance Insights

Investigate assay performance by visualising coverage across target regions, helping identify coverage drop-offs and regions requiring optimisation.

Deployment

Flexible deployment options for different laboratory environments.

QC-Companion can be used out of the box or configured around your laboratory's thresholds, reporting requirements and infrastructure.

Local Workstation

Run QC-Companion on a local machine with no internet connection required.

Laboratory Server

Deploy on an internal server for secure, centralised access across the lab.

Cloud Deployment

Deploy in the cloud for scalable, reliable and accessible QC workflows.

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