About DIAMOND

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 available 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