star

Biostatistics
Genetics

Software Description

Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference (STAR) is a software package developed for aligning large RNA-seq datasets.


Info

Module Name

star

Last Updated On

08/29/2023

Support Level

Primary Support

Software Access Level

Open Access

Home Page

https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR

Documentation

Software Description

Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference (STAR) is a software package developed for aligning large RNA-seq datasets.

Slurm Example

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name="rfm_RunSTARTest_job"
#SBATCH --ntasks=24
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=24
#SBATCH --output=rfm_RunSTARTest_job.out
#SBATCH --error=rfm_RunSTARTest_job.err
#SBATCH --time=0:10:0
#SBATCH -p small,large,ram256g,ram1t
module load star/2.5.3a
wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/star/Melampsora_laricipopulina....
wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/trimmomatic/seq.fq
STAR --runMode genomeGenerate --runThreadN 24 --genomeDir ./ --genomeFastaFiles Melampsora_laricipopulina.GCA_000204055.1.dna.toplevel.fa
STAR --genomeDir ./ --runThreadN 24 --readFilesIn seq.fq --outFileNamePrefix output

General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

module load star

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of star available. To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

module avail star

Agate Modules

Default

2.7.1a

Other Modules

2.7.1a, 2.5.3a

Mangi Modules

Default

2.7.1a

Other Modules

2.7.1a, 2.5.3a

Mesabi Modules

Default

2.7.1a

Other Modules

2.7.1a, 2.5.3a