Reposted by Lukas Heumos
While we are still working on the first feature/perf full release of the rustar-aligner, you can currently use the main branch to build a byte-compatible STAR index >2x faster with <1/2 of the RAM (and use it with STAR). Plus it fixes a small STAR bug github.com/scverse/rust...
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