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STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

Bioinformatics · 2012 · Vol. 29(1) · pp. 15–21
Alexander DobinCarrie DavisFelix SchlesingerJörg DrenkowChris ZaleskiSonali JhaPhilippe BatutMark ChaissonT Gingeras

Abstract

STAR is implemented as a standalone C++ code. STAR is free open source software distributed under GPLv3 license and can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/rna-star/.

Genomics and Phylogenetic StudiesRNA modifications and cancerRNA and protein synthesis mechanismsComputer scienceJSONComputational biologySoftwareRNA-SeqAdapter (computing)AlgorithmBiologyGeneticsTranscriptome

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AlgorithmsHumansRNA SplicingSoftwareGenome, HumanCluster AnalysisSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, RNAGene Expression Profiling
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