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A Galaxy wrapper for STAR version 2.3.0
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STAR aligns RNA-seq reads to a reference genome using uncompressed suffix arrays.
more details: https://code.google.com/p/rna-star/

Contents:
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./galaxy 
    Galaxy tool configuration file can be found here. Please make necessary editing 
    for .xml files. STAR genome index are added to the .loc file and please make sure
    that the fields are seperated with tab-delimited (not space delimited). Then please 
    add the content of file tool_data_table_conf.xml.sample to the instances 
    tool_data_table_conf.xml file. 

    Please follow the shell script to understand the details of wrapper script works.

Licenses:
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    If **STAR** is used to obtain results for scientific publications it should be cited as [1].

    This wrapper program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the 
    terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 
    version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    Copyright(C) 2013 cBio Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, USA.

References:
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    [1] A. Dobin et al, Bioinformatics 2012; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts635

Contributions:
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    Thanks to Jeremy Goecks, Galaxy team, for providing the partial STAR wrapper. 

Contact:
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    Technical questions about STAR: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/rna-star
    
    support [at] oqtans.org