def reporter(self):
        """
        Creates a report of the results
        """
        # Create a set of all the gene names without alleles or accessions e.g. sul1_18_AY260546 becomes sul1
        genedict = dict()
        # Load the notes file to a dictionary
        notefile = os.path.join(self.targetpath, 'notes.txt')
        with open(notefile, 'r') as notes:
            for line in notes:
                # Ignore comment lines - they will break the parsing
                if line.startswith('#'):
                    continue
                # Split the line on colons e.g. stx1Aa:  Shiga toxin 1, subunit A, variant a: has three variables after
                # the split: gene(stx1Aa), description(Shiga toxin 1, subunit A, variant a), and _(\n)
                try:
                    gene, description, _ = line.split(':')
                # There are exceptions to the parsing. Some lines only have one :, while others have three. Allow for
                # these possibilities.
                except ValueError:
                    try:
                        gene, description = line.split(':')
                    except ValueError:
                        gene, description, _, _ = line.split(':')
                # Set up the description dictionary
                genedict[gene] = description.replace(', ', '_').strip()
        # 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. stx1:11:Z36899:11 yields stx1
                        if ':' in name:
                            sample[self.analysistype].delimiter = ':'
                        else:
                            sample[self.analysistype].delimiter = '_'
                        genename = name.split(sample[self.analysistype].delimiter)[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:
                raise
        # Create the path in which the reports are stored
        make_path(self.reportpath)
        # Initialise strings to store the results
        data = 'Strain,Gene,Subtype/Allele,Description,Accession,PercentIdentity,FoldCoverage\n'
        with open(os.path.join(self.reportpath, self.analysistype + '.csv'), 'w') as report:
            for sample in self.runmetadata.samples:
                try:
                    if sample[self.analysistype].results:
                        # If there are many results for a sample, don't write the sample name in each line of the report
                        for name, identity in sorted(sample[self.analysistype].results.items()):
                            # Check to see which delimiter is used to separate the gene name, allele, accession, and
                            # subtype information in the header
                            if len(name.split(sample[self.analysistype].delimiter)) == 4:
                                # Split the name on the delimiter: stx2A:63:AF500190:d; gene: stx2A, allele: 63,
                                # accession: AF500190, subtype: d
                                genename, allele, accession, subtype = name.split(sample[self.analysistype].delimiter)
                            elif len(name.split(sample[self.analysistype].delimiter)) == 3:
                                # Treat samples without a subtype e.g. icaC:intercellular adhesion protein C: differently.
                                # Extract the allele as the 'subtype', and the gene name, and accession as above
                                genename, subtype, accession = name.split(sample[self.analysistype].delimiter)
                            else:
                                genename = name
                                subtype = ''
                                accession = ''
                            # Retrieve the best identity for each gene
                            percentid = sample[self.analysistype].uniquegenes[genename]
                            # 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:
                                # Treat the initial vs subsequent results for each sample slightly differently - instead
                                # of including the sample name, use an empty cell instead
                                try:
                                    description = genedict[genename]
                                except KeyError:
                                    description = 'na'
                                # Populate the results
                                data += '{samplename},{gene},{subtype},{description},{accession},{identity},{depth}\n'\
                                    .format(samplename=sample.name,
                                            gene=genename,
                                            subtype=subtype,
                                            description=description,
                                            accession=accession,
                                            identity=identity,
                                            depth=sample[self.analysistype].avgdepth[name])
                    else:
                        data += sample.name + '\n'
                except (KeyError, AttributeError):
                    data += sample.name + '\n'
            # Write the strings to the file
            report.write(data)