Diamond

Description

diamond website

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 DIAMOND is currently under review. If you use the software, then please cite: Benjamin Buchfink, Chao Xie & Daniel H. Huson, Fast and Sensitive Protein Alignment using DIAMOND, under review.

Environment Modules

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

Environment Variables

• HPC_DIAMOND_DIR - installation directory
• HPC_DIAMOND_BIN - executable directory
• HPC_DIAMOND_DOC - documentation directory
• HPC_DIAMOND_REF or DIAMONDDB - reference database directory

Categories

biology, genomics