Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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No DRAGEN hardware? No problem. DRAGEN v4.5 introduces the STAR Aligner as a software-only alternative to the DRAGEN mapper for single-cell RNA-seq analysis — making DRAGEN accessible to any lab without FPGA infrastructure. Overall results including gene and cell counts, clustering, and cell type annotation are similar between STAR and the DRAGEN mapper.

This video is a clip from the full DRAGEN v4.5 webinar, DRAGEN v4.5 - Expanding Accurate Variant Discovery Across the Entire Genome.

Watch the full on-demand session here: illumina.com/events/webinar/2026/dragen-v4.5.html

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