diamond

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Introduction

DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA searches, designed for high performance analysis of big sequence data. The key features are:

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Documentation

The online documentation is located at the GitHub Wiki.

Support

Diamond is actively supported and developed software. Please use the issue tracker for malfunctions and the GitHub discussions for questions, comments, feature requests, etc.

About

DIAMOND is developed by Benjamin Buchfink. From 2019-2024, it was developed by Benjamin Buchfink at the Drost lab, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen. From 2018-2019, its development was supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy through an EXIST grant. From 2016-2018, it was developed by Benjamin Buchfink as an independent researcher. From 2013-2015, the initial version was developed by Benjamin Buchfink at the Huson lab, University of Tübingen, Germany.

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When using the tool in published research, please cite:

For sequence clustering:

Original publication to cite DIAMOND until v0.9.25: