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

• Version: 2.5.3a
• Added: March, 2016
• Updated: September, 2017
• Link: https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR

See which versions of star are available:

$ module avail star

Load one into your environment and run it:

$ module load STAR/2.5.3a
$ STAR

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/2.5.3a.tar.gz
$ tar xf 2.5.3a.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir /export/apps/star/2.5.3a/bin
$ sudo cp -rv STAR-2.5.3a/bin/Linux_x86_64/STAR* /export/apps/star/2.5.3a/bin