Overview
FastQC aims to provide a simple way to do some quality control checks on raw sequence data coming from high throughput sequencing pipelines. It provides a modular set of analyses which you can use to give a quick impression of whether your data has any problems of which you should be aware before doing any further analysis.
Using
Use the module name fastqc to discover versions available and to load the application.
Multicore
The fastqc command can be ran with multiple threads, see the fasqc --help for more details on the --threads option.