STAR error bgzf_open: Assertion failed
You may encounter errors that look similar to these when running STAR 2.7.10b on Cardinal:
STAR: bgzf.c:158: bgzf_open: Assertion `compressBound(0xff00) < 0x10000' failed.
Cause
It seems to be related to this issue: https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/issues/2063
STAR bundles an older version of HTSlib which is incompatible with zlib-ng, a library we build STAR with
Workaround
Use star/2.7.11b on Cardinal