Diamond is an aligner for protein and translated DNA sequences. For more information, see the tool's GitHub repo and wiki.

Diamond has two modes currently integrated with Toolchest: BLASTp (diamond blastp) and BLASTx (diamond blastx). Each mode has its own function call (diamond_blastp and diamond_blastx, respectively). See the relevant subpage for in-depth documentation:

Diamond BLASTp

Diamond BLASTx