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

• Version: 2.7.10a
• Added: March, 2016
• Updated: June, 2022
• Link: https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR

See which versions are available:

$ module avail star

Load one version into your environment and run it:

$ module load star/2.7.10a
$ STAR

Notes from the sysadmin during installation:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/archive/refs/tags/2.7.10a.tar.gz
$ tar xf 2.7.10a.tar.gz 
$ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/star/2.7.10a/bin
$ sudo cp -v STAR-2.7.10a/bin/Linux_x86_64_static/* /export/apps/star/2.7.10a/bin