WSL can be a great option for those that need to have a Windows OS and cannot access a Linux server.
I have tried to run STAR from Windows WSL with Ubuntu 18 installed. First, I tried the pre-compiled binaries (last release; 2.6), and the program runs, but it does not align anything. I tried with some paired-end data with default options, but after loading the genome, it finishes "successfully" in few seconds and the Aligned.out is empty. Then, I tried compiling from source. After installing dependencies, the program compiled fine although with warnings and it runs, but again it does nothing after loading the genome (but finishes without errors). The Log.out doesn´t help finding the problem:
Same data and genome index runs fine in a Linux server, and I have just run Hisat2 in WSL successfully with the same fastq files 
I wonder if someone managed to run STAR on WSL. I would appreciate your feedback (and Alex's one if he sees this thread)
Thanks
I have tried to run STAR from Windows WSL with Ubuntu 18 installed. First, I tried the pre-compiled binaries (last release; 2.6), and the program runs, but it does not align anything. I tried with some paired-end data with default options, but after loading the genome, it finishes "successfully" in few seconds and the Aligned.out is empty. Then, I tried compiling from source. After installing dependencies, the program compiled fine although with warnings and it runs, but again it does nothing after loading the genome (but finishes without errors). The Log.out doesn´t help finding the problem:
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Finished loading the genome: Wed Jul 11 09:49:31 2018 Processing splice junctions database sjdbN=230202, pGe.sjdbOverhang=100 alignIntronMax=alignMatesGapMax=0, the max intron size will be approximately determined by (2^winBinNbits)*winAnchorDistNbins=589824 Created thread # 1 Completed: thread #0 Completed: thread #1 Joined thread # 1 ALL DONE!
I wonder if someone managed to run STAR on WSL. I would appreciate your feedback (and Alex's one if he sees this thread)
Thanks
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