UW HYAK STAR container

See STAR repo by Alex Dobin for more details and the manual for using STAR.

To provide a version of STAR for HYAK users, I converted the Dockerfile provided by Dobin into an apptainer .def file. The changes were minor. The only addition that was required was to install vim-common and all of its dependencies to have xxd which is required for building STAR.

Building the STAR container

Download the STAR_aligner.def file from this repo.

$ wget https://github.com/finchnSNPs/hyak-STAR/blob/main/STAR_aligner.def

Build the apptainer container. On HYAK, load the apptainer module with module load apptainer from an interactive job.

$ apptainer build STAR_aligner.sif STAR_aligner.def

Test the container.

$ apptainer run STAR_aligner.sif STAR -h
$ apptainer run STAR_aligner.sif STAR --version