STAR(Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference) is an RNA-seq aligner.

• Version: 2.5.2b
• Added: March, 2016
• Updated: November, 2016
• Link: https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/

See which versions of STAR are available:

$ module avail STAR

Load STAR

$ module load STAR/2.5.2b

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR.git
$ cd STAR/source
$ scl enable devtoolset-2 bash
$ make
$ sudo mkdir /export/apps/star/2.5.2b/
$ sudo cp -rv ../bin/Linux_x86_64/ /export/apps/star/2.5.2b/