# star

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** star
+ **Support Level:** Primary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR](https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR)

## Software Description

Spliced Transcripts Alignment to a Reference (STAR) is a software
package developed for aligning large RNA-seq datasets.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load star

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of star available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail star
## Slurm Example


	#!/bin/bash
	#SBATCH --job-name="rfm_RunSTARTest_job"
	#SBATCH --ntasks=24
	#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=24
	#SBATCH --output=rfm_RunSTARTest_job.out
	#SBATCH --error=rfm_RunSTARTest_job.err
	#SBATCH --time=0:10:0
	#SBATCH -p msismall
	module load star/2.5.3a
	wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/star/Melampsora_laricipopulina....
	wget https://public.s3.msi.umn.edu/reframe/sw/trimmomatic/seq.fq
	STAR --runMode genomeGenerate --runThreadN 24 --genomeDir ./ --genomeFastaFiles Melampsora_laricipopulina.GCA_000204055.1.dna.toplevel.fa
	STAR --genomeDir ./ --runThreadN 24 --readFilesIn seq.fq --outFileNamePrefix output