def reporter(self):
        """
        Creates a report of the results
        """
        logging.info('Creating {at} report'.format(at=self.analysistype))
        resistance_classes = ResistanceNotes.classes(self.targetpath)
        # Find unique gene names with the highest percent identity
        for sample in self.runmetadata.samples:
            try:
                if sample[self.analysistype].results:
                    # Initialise a dictionary to store the unique genes, and their percent identities
                    sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes = dict()
                    for name, identity in sample[self.analysistype].results.items():
                        # Split the name of the gene from the string e.g. ARR-2_1_HQ141279 yields ARR-2
                        genename = name.split('_')[0]
                        # Set the best observed percent identity for each unique gene
                        try:
                            # Pull the previous best identity from the dictionary
                            bestidentity = sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes[genename]
                            # If the current identity is better than the old identity, save it
                            if float(identity) > float(bestidentity):
                                sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes[genename] = float(identity)
                        # Initialise the dictionary if necessary
                        except KeyError:
                            sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes[genename] = float(identity)
            except AttributeError:
                pass
        # Create the path in which the reports are stored
        make_path(self.reportpath)
        # Initialise strings to store the results
        data = 'Strain,Resistance,Gene,Allele,Accession,PercentIdentity,Length,FoldCoverage\n'
        with open(os.path.join(self.reportpath, self.analysistype + '.csv'), 'w') as report:
            for sample in self.runmetadata.samples:
                # Create an attribute to store the string for the eventual pipeline report
                sample[self.analysistype].pipelineresults = list()
                data += sample.name + ','
                if sample[self.analysistype].results:
                    # If there are multiple results for a sample, don't write the name in each line of the report
                    multiple = False
                    for name, identity in sorted(sample[self.analysistype].results.items()):
                        # Extract the necessary variables from the gene name string
                        gname, genename, accession, allele = ResistanceNotes.gene_name(name)
                        # Retrieve the best identity for each gene
                        try:
                            percentid = sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes[gname]
                        # Beta-lactamases will not have the allele and version from the gene name defined above
                        except KeyError:
                            percentid = sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes[gname.split('-')[0]]
                        # If the percent identity of the current gene matches the best percent identity, add it to
                        # the report - there can be multiple occurrences of genes e.g.
                        # sul1,1,AY224185,100.00,840 and sul1,2,CP002151,100.00,927 are both included because they
                        # have the same 100% percent identity
                        if float(identity) == percentid:
                            try:
                                # Determine resistance phenotype of the gene
                                res = ResistanceNotes.resistance(name, resistance_classes)
                                # Treat the initial vs subsequent results for each sample slightly differently - instead
                                # of including the sample name, use an empty cell instead
                                if multiple:
                                    data += ','
                                # Populate the results
                                data += '{},{},{},{},{},{},{}\n'.format(
                                    res,
                                    genename,
                                    allele,
                                    accession,
                                    identity,
                                    len(sample[self.analysistype].sequences[name]),
                                    sample[self.analysistype].avgdepth[name])
                                sample[self.analysistype].pipelineresults.append(
                                    '{rgene} ({pid}%) {rclass}'.format(rgene=genename,
                                                                       pid=identity,
                                                                       rclass=res)
                                )
                                multiple = True
                            except KeyError:
                                pass
                else:
                    data += '\n'
            # Write the strings to the file
            report.write(data)