Star

Owned by Simon Alexander
Last updated: Dec 01, 2022
1 min read
1 Overview | 2 Using | 2.1 Multicore:

Overview

  • Star: Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference.

    • There is a comment on this page detailing “this release was tested with the default parameters for human and mouse genomes. Mammal genomes require at least 16GB of RAM, ideally 32GB. Please contact the author for a list of recommended parameters for much larger or much smaller genomes.“

Using

Use the module name star to discover versions available and to load the application.

Multicore:

Both the STAR/STARlong commands can run across multiple threads. View their help for further details, for example STAR --help on using the --runThreadN option.