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title: "MultiQC"
description: "Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report"
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/projects/multiqc"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Projects"
group: "Work projects"
website: "https://seqera.io/multiqc/"
github: "https://github.com/MultiQC/MultiQC"
---

# MultiQC

> Aggregate results from bioinformatics analyses across many samples into a single report

MultiQC is a reporting tool designed to aggregate output from bioinformatics analyses into a single comprehensive report. It works by scanning results from multiple analysis tools and combining them into a single, user-friendly HTML report.

MultiQC is particularly useful in large-scale projects, where manual inspection of individual tool outputs would be tedious and error-prone. It standardises reporting, ensuring consistency and reproducibility across datasets.

I began writing MultiQC at SciLifeLab, as we needed a better QC reporting tool for the large projects that we were running.
While it is not a particularly complex tool, it has been a great case of "right place at the right time".
It unwittingly has become the _de-facto_ reporting tool for much of bioinformatics (certainly genomics) and now supports hundreds of bioinformatics tools with many if not most modules written by the community.
When I joined Seqera in 2022, MultiQC also became part of the Seqera family.

MultiQC is open-source and available on GitHub at [MultiQC/MultiQC](https://github.com/MultiQC/MultiQC). The tool has been widely adopted in the bioinformatics community and is used across a range of fields, from genomics to transcriptomics, making it an essential part of modern data processing pipelines.

- **Passes 5k citations** (July 2024) — MultiQC publication gets 5,000th citation
- **Vlad hired as dedicated developer** (October 2023) — Vlad Savelyev joins Seqera to work full time on MultiQC
- **Joins Seqera** (March 2022) — Becomes part of the Seqera family
- **Published in 'Bioinformatics'** (October 2016) — DOI: [10.1093/bioinformatics/btw354](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw354)
- **First commit** (August 4th 2015) — Started project whilst [working at SciLifeLab](https://phil.ewels.co.uk/work/scilifelab)

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt