Hi all,

I am using the DIAMOND aligner and I have been trying to find what the different fields in the DIAMOND blast tabular file (.m8) are. The fields aren't listed on the DIAMOND github page or paper. Does anyone know what the different tabs are?

Thanks!
They are supposed to be the same as the default tabular BLAST+, output (`-outfmt 6` or `-m 8`):

    'qseqid sseqid pident length mismatch gapopen qstart qend sstart send evalue bitscore'
    
    ...
               qseqid means Query Seq-id
               sseqid means Subject Seq-id
               pident means Percentage of identical matches
               length means Alignment length
             mismatch means Number of mismatches
              gapopen means Number of gap openings
               qstart means Start of alignment in query
                 qend means End of alignment in query
               sstart means Start of alignment in subject
                 send means End of alignment in subject
               evalue means Expect value
             bitscore means Bit score

**EDIT**: edit down descriptors to the relevant ones, and to fix BLAST+ option.