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 DIAMOND is developed by Benjamin Buchfink. Feel free to contact me for support (`Email <mailto:buchfink@gmail.com>`_ `Twitter <http://twitter.com/bbuchfink>`_).
 
 If you use DIAMOND in published research, please cite B. Buchfink, Xie C., D. Huson, "Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND", Nature Methods 12, 59-60 (2015).
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