diamond: diamond (A sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA) diamond: diamond: DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA diamond: searches, designed for high performance analysis of big sequence diamond: data. The key features are: diamond: diamond: 1) 500x-20,000x speed of BLAST diamond: 2) Frameshift alignments for long read analysis. diamond: 3) Low resource requirements diamond: 4) Various output formats diamond: