This post is quite old, but in my view MultiQC is always worth mentioning, and it has a FastQC module.

Hi,

I have written the following perl script to deal with the fastqc results summary.txt files, both for PE and SE. the output contain the reads number, total bases, GC content, Q20, Q30. The insert size is provided in the first parameter file by yourself. I have tested this script widely, still use it at your own risk.

use strict;
use warnings;

my $usage="$0 <listf> <outf>\n
<listf>  the fastQC output summary file list in the format:
\t\tSampleID<tb>InsertSize<tb>fastqc1<tb>fastqc2, the InsertSize and fastqc2 is omitted for SE
<outf>   the statistics result file


\n";

die $usage if @ARGV<2;

my($listf,$outf)=@ARGV;

my $wc = `cat $listf |head -n1 |sed 's/\\t/\\n/g'|wc -l`;chomp $wc;
my $ps;
if($wc > 2){
        $ps = "PE";
}else{
        $ps = "SE";
}

my(@info,%res);
open I,$listf;
open O,">",$outf;
if($ps eq "PE"){
        print O "Sample\tInsertSize\tReadLength\tGC%\tRawReads\tRawBases\tQ20%\tQ30%\n";
}else{
        print O "Sample\tReadLength\tGC%\tRawReads\tRawBases\tQ20%\tQ30%\n";
}
while(<I>){
        my ($total,$ratio,%posNum,$readLen,%res,$readsNum1,$readsLen1,$fastqcRes);
        chomp;
        $fastqcRes=$_;
        @info=split /\s+/;
        $res{InsertSize}=$info[1];
        my $samp=$info[0];
        if($ps eq "PE"){
                open I2,$info[2];
                open I3,$info[3];
        }else{
                open I2,$info[1];
        }
        while(<I2>){
                chomp;
                if(/Total\sSequences\s(\d+)/){
                        $total=$1;
                        $posNum{20}=$total;
                        $posNum{30}=$total;
                        $res{RawReads}= $total;
                        $readsNum1=$1;
                }
                if(/Sequence\slength\s(\d+)[-_](\d+)/){
                        warn "can not correctly statistic the base number, because the reads length is not the same, use the shortest one\n$_\n";
                }
                if(/Sequence\slength\s(\d+)/){
                        $res{ReadLength}=$1."_".$1 if $ps eq "PE";
                        $res{ReadLength}=$1 if $ps eq "SE";
                        $res{RawBases}=$res{RawReads} * $1;
                        $readsLen1=$1;
                }
                if(/^\%GC\s+(\d+)/){
                        $res{GC}=$1;
                }
                @info=split /\s+/;
                if(/#Quality/){
                        while(<I2>){
                                chomp;@info=split /\s+/;
                                last if $info[0]>29;
                                $posNum{20} -= $info[1] if $info[0] <20;
                                $posNum{30} -= $info[1] if $info[0] < 30;
                        }
                        $res{Q20}=sprintf("%.2f",$posNum{20}/$total*100);
                        $res{Q30}=sprintf("%.2f",$posNum{30}/$total*100);
                        last;
                }
        }
        if($ps eq "PE"){
        while(<I3>){
                chomp;
                @info=split /\s+/;

                if(/Total\sSequences\s(\d+)/){
                        warn "paired reads with different reads number\n$fastqcRes\n" if $readsNum1 != $1;
                        $total=$1;
                        $posNum{20}=$total; $posNum{30}=$total;
                        $res{RawReads} += $total;
                }
                if(/Sequence\slength\s(\d+)[-_](\d+)/){
                        warn "can not statistic the base number, because the reads length is not the same in one fastq file\n$fastqcRes\n";
                }
                if(/Sequence\slength\s(\d+)/){
                        warn "paired reads with different reads length\n$fastqcRes\n" if $readsLen1 != $1;
                        $res{RawBases} += $total * $1;
                }

                if(/^\%GC\s+(\d+)/){
                        $res{GC}=$res{GC}."_".$1;
                }
                if(/#Quality/){
                        while(<I3>){
                                chomp;@info=split /\s+/;
                                last if $info[0]>29;
                                $posNum{20} -= $info[1] if $info[0] <20;
                                $posNum{30} -= $info[1] if $info[0] < 30;
                        }
                        $res{Q20}=$res{Q20}."_".sprintf("%.2f",$posNum{20}/$total*100);
                        $res{Q30}=$res{Q30}."_".sprintf("%.2f",$posNum{30}/$total*100);
        #print O "Sample\tInsertSize\tReadLength\tGC%\tRawReads\tRawBases\tQ20%\tQ30%\n";
                        print O "$samp\t$res{InsertSize}\t$res{ReadLength}\t$res{GC}\t$res{RawReads}\t$res{RawBases}\t$res{Q20}\t$res{Q30}\n";
                        last;
                }
        }}
        if($ps eq "SE"){
                print O "$samp\t$res{ReadLength}\t$res{GC}\t$res{RawReads}\t$res{RawBases}\t$res{Q20}\t$res{Q30}\n";
        }

}
close O;
close I;