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+# Quality Control (QC) Exercises
+
+This document has the path for the sequencing data to be copied for the exercises.
+
+## Absolute path for raw data and files
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/illumina/01_data_mrsa - raw fastq files for mrsa from illumina
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/illumina/01_data_upec/ - raw fastq files for upec from illumina
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/nanopore/Group1_mrsa/rawdata_mrsa/ - raw fastq files for mrsa from nanopore
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/nanopore/Group2_upec/rawdata_upec/ - raw fastq files foe upec from nanopore
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/nanopore/Group1_mrsa/sequencing_summary_FAS74008_3919db7b_5086a1cb.txt - seq summary file for mrsa qc
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/nanopore/Group2_upec/sequencing_summary_FAS66307_6bec0f82_c8f87af5.txt - seq summary file for upec qc
+
+## Path for QC script
+
+/shares/amr.imm.uzh/data/projects/Blockcourse_BIO296/FS2023/Participants_data/nanopore_scripts/nanopore_qc_nanoplot.sh
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+