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RNA-seq aligner
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Long "Cellbarcode" limitation #2079

Open chenweng1991 opened 7 months ago

chenweng1991 commented 7 months ago

Dear Alex: My name is Chen Weng, I'm a postdoc at Whitehead Institute. Thank you for the amazing tool! 

 We have some dataset that has very long "Cell barcode", up to 43bp.  When I try to run Starsolo, I was stopped by an error suggesting that the cell barcode exceeded the limitation of STARsolo. I was wondering if there is a good way to work around this issue.  Thank you very much!

Best regards --Chen

alexdobin commented 7 months ago

Hi Chen,

There is a new option, --soloCBtype String that should be able to deal with any string of characters, though it's less efficient. I have not tested it thoroughly, so please let me know how it goes.

chenweng1991 commented 7 months ago

Thank you very much for getting back to me! I'll try it out.

Thanks! Best regards --Chen