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Analysis Reports

The FlowAgent analysis report functionality provides comprehensive insights into your workflow outputs. It analyzes quality metrics, alignment statistics, and expression data to generate actionable recommendations.

Running Analysis Reports

# Basic analysis
flowagent "analyze workflow results" --analysis-dir=/path/to/workflow/output

# Focus on specific aspects
flowagent "analyze quality metrics" --analysis-dir=/path/to/workflow/output
flowagent "analyze alignment rates" --analysis-dir=/path/to/workflow/output
flowagent "analyze expression data" --analysis-dir=/path/to/workflow/output

The analyzer will recursively search for relevant files in your analysis directory, including: - FastQC outputs - MultiQC reports - Kallisto results - Log files

Report Components

Summary

  • Number of files analyzed
  • QC metrics processed
  • Issues found
  • Recommendations

Quality Control Analysis

  • FastQC metrics and potential issues
  • Read quality distribution
  • Adapter contamination levels
  • Sequence duplication rates

Alignment Analysis

  • Overall alignment rates
  • Unique vs multi-mapped reads
  • Read distribution statistics

Expression Analysis

  • Gene expression levels
  • TPM distributions
  • Sample correlations

Recommendations

  • Quality improvement suggestions
  • Parameter optimization tips
  • Technical issue resolutions

Report Output

By default, the analysis report is: - Displayed in the console - Saved as a markdown file (analysis_report.md) in your analysis directory

To only view the report without saving:

flowagent "analyze workflow results" --analysis-dir=results --no-save-report