STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner.

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Published in Bioinformatics on October 25, 2012

Authors

Alexander Dobin1, Carrie A Davis, Felix Schlesinger, Jorg Drenkow, Chris Zaleski, Sonali Jha, Philippe Batut, Mark Chaisson, Thomas R Gingeras

Author Affiliations

1: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. dobin@cshl.edu

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