STAR aligner
Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference is a fast RNA-seq read mapper, with support for splice-junction and fusion read detection.
Documentation
- STAR github home
- Citation: If you use STAR, please cite:
Dobin A, Davis CA, Schlesinger F, Drenkow J, Zaleski C, Jha S, Batut P, Chaisson M, Gingeras TR. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner. Bioinformatics. 2013 Jan 1;29(1):15-21. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts635
Usage on Bridges-2
To see what versions of STAR are available and if there is more than one, which is the default, along with some help, type
module spider STAR
To use STAR, include a command like this in your batch script or interactive session to load the STAR module: (note ‘module load’ is case-sensitive):
module load STAR
Usage on Bridges
To see what versions of STAR aligner are available type
module avail staraligner
To see what other modules are needed, what commands are available and how to get additional help type
module help staraligner
To use STAR aligner, include a command like this in your batch script or interactive session to load the staraligner module:
module load staraligner
Be sure you also load any other modules needed, as listed by the module help staraligner command.