Diamond

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Description

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DIAMOND is a new high-throughput program for aligning a file of NGS reads against a protein reference database such as NR, at up to 16000 times the speed of BLASTX, with little loss of sensitivity.

See the full PDF Diamond Manual for usage details.

Environment Modules

Run module spider diamond to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

System Variables

  • HPC_DIAMOND_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_DIAMOND_DOC - documentation directory with the PDF manual
  • HPC_DIAMOND_REF or DIAMONDDB - reference database directory