STARS is an alternative interface to staden for studying polymorphisms in short sequences with batch processing, manual editing, trace viewing and data management. STARS was initially designed for Multi Locus Sequence Typing of bacteria.
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STARS was originally written in 2001 for the bioinformatics servers at the University of Oxford running the Solaris operating system. The original developers are now in other employment and are no longer supporting or developing STARS as part of their work. The recommended route for obtaining STARS is now the biolinux project run by the NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre in Oxford (http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html). This is a customised distribution of linux for bioinformatics which incorporates staden and STARS as part of the distribution. If you wish to use STARS you should contact the NEBC through their website. Official support is only available to NERC staff but there is a discussion list for community support (http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/bio-linux). The original software is still available through sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/stars/) but is no longer supported. For specific groups of users there is additional support. For those interested in using STARS for Multi Locus Sequence Typing of bacteria informal advice is available from Keith Jolley at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford (keith.jolley@zoo.ox.ac.uk). For users at the University of Oxford the STARS software is installed and supported on the servers of the Computational Biology Research Group (http://www.cbrg.ox.ac.uk).
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STARS has been released on sourceforge. For installation instructions please see http://www.molbiol.ox.ac.uk/~paediat/stars/index.html which is the main home page of the project.
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