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how to using STAR ?

Dear all I am trying to find SNP from sheep DNA . can i use STAR to map and align DNA ? how can i use STAR ? thanks

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No you can't. STAR is not designed for DNA but RNA sequencing.

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

Use something like bwa, bowtie2 or bbmap.

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