# Hide outliers in boxplot

**URL:** <https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215>\
**Category:** Ask for help\
**Tags:** multiqc\
**Created:** [June 23, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215 "2025-06-23T13:58:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Julia](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.seqera.io/julia/32/1381_2.png) [@Julia](https://community.seqera.io/u/Julia)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215/1 "2025-06-23T13:58:32Z")

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Hi,

is there a parameter to hide outliers in a multiqc boxplot? The report takes a long time to load because it has to display all of the outliers.

I am creating the plot via:

```Yaml
  mass_error:
    plot_type: "boxplot"
    file_format: "tsv"
    section_name: "Fragment mass error"
    pconfig:
      xlab: "Mass deviation [Da/ppm]"

```

Thank you!

Best, Julia

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**Author:** ![ewels](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.seqera.io/ewels/32/1_2.png) [@ewels](https://community.seqera.io/u/ewels)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215/2 "2025-07-01T14:55:03Z")

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I don’t think that this is possible currently, no. But it would be simple enough to add.

I’ve created an issue on GitHub to track this feature request:

> <https://github.com/MultiQC/MultiQC/issues/3243>
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> It would be nice to have a plot config option for box plots to \_not\_ show outlie…rs. If there are a lot of them then it can make the report sluggish / large.
> 
> Reported in https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215

Phil

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**Author:** ![ewels](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.seqera.io/ewels/32/1_2.png) [@ewels](https://community.seqera.io/u/ewels)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215/3 "2025-07-02T12:35:12Z")

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This has now been implemented, see the pull request here:

> <https://github.com/MultiQC/MultiQC/pull/3244>
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> Option to specify how to display outliers in a box plot.
> 
> Fix https://github.c…om/MultiQC/MultiQC/issues/3243 and https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215

It’ll be released shortly in MultiQC v1.30

Let us know how you get on! 🙏

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.seqera.io/system/32/2402_2.png) [@system](https://community.seqera.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.seqera.io/t/hide-outliers-in-boxplot/2215/4 "2025-07-09T12:36:05Z")

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