How to Install diamond-aligner in Ubuntu 18.04



Install diamond-aligner by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install diamond-aligner

Description:

accelerated BLAST compatible local sequence aligner

DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA searches and functions as a drop-in replacement for the NCBI BLAST software tools. It is suitable for protein-protein search as well as DNA-protein search on short reads and longer sequences including contigs and assemblies, providing a speedup of BLAST ranging up to x20,000.

Homepage: https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond

Version: 0.9.17+dfsg-1

Section: universe/science