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STAR

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Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference. STAR is an ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner capable of mapping full-length RNA-seq reads and detecting de novo canonical and non-canonical splice junctions.

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GitHub →View on bio.tools →License: MIT
TranscriptomicsRNA splicingAlignmentSplice detection

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resolve-library-id("star")

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Input Formats

FASTQ

Output Formats

BAMSAM

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Installation

conda
conda install -c bioconda star

Container Images

quay.io
docker pull quay.io/biocontainers/star:2.7.11b--h43eeafb_0

Pipeline Integrations

nf-core/rnaseqnf-core
star/alignsnakemake-wrapper

Cite this tool

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

Dobin A, Davis CA, Schlesinger F, et al.

Bioinformatics (2013)

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts635
Dobin A, Davis CA, & Schlesinger F, et al. (2013). STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts635
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Version History

  • v2.7.11b2024-01-15

    Bug fixes and memory optimizations

  • v2.7.11a2023-09-20
  • v2.7.10b2023-04-12