STAR Suite: Transcriptomics processing in a single binary through AI-assisted development
Ling‐Hong Hung, Dylan Baker, Bill Flynn, Danwei Huangfu, Renhe Luo, Paul Robson, Ting Zhou, Ka Yee Yeung
Open-source STAR binary for five transcriptomic assays runs 3.9- to 6.2-fold faster than Cell Ranger 9.0.1 for scRNA-seq and Perturb-seq, 17- to 41-fold for Flex, with closely concordant counts.
bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics✦ In-depth digest