FastQC 0.11.2: Where is the fastqc_data.txt file?

Question

[David Langenberger]

In the new version of FastQC (0.11.2) I cannot find the fastqc_data.txt file. Has anyone an idea of how to create it? Is there an option to set? Or is it gone for good?

[Devon Ryan]

You might post this over on SEQanswers, where Simon Andrews monitors this thread.

[Istvan Albert]

What was that file used for?

[David Langenberger]

All results in tsv-format.

Answer 1

[David Langenberger]

Problem solved. I added --extract to automatically extract the .zip file and then the fastqc_data.txt file appears again.

Answer 2

[Istvan Albert]

The fastqc_data.txt file is still there unpack .zip file.

[David Langenberger]

That was the first place I searched for it. But in my .zip file there is no fastqc_data.txt. Did you use version 0.11.2?

[Istvan Albert]

Yes:

$ fastqc -v
​FastQC v0.11.2
$
$ fastqc S12_2U.fq
$ 
$ zip -sf S12_2U_fastqc.zip | grep data
  S12_2U_fastqc/fastqc_**data**.txt