diff --git a/BioArchLinux/diamond/PKGBUILD b/BioArchLinux/diamond/PKGBUILD
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+# Maintainer: Bipin Kumar <bipin@ccmb.res.in>
+# shellcheck disable=2034
+# shellcheck disable=2148
+
+pkgname=diamond
+pkgver=2.0.15
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA searches, designed for high performance analysis of big sequence data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01101-x"
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond"
+license=('GPL3')
+depends=('gcc-libs' 'zlib')
+makedepends=('cmake')
+source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
+sha256sums=('cc8e1f3fd357d286cf6585b21321bd25af69aae16ae1a8f605ea603c1886ffa4')
+
+prepare() {
+  # shellcheck disable=2154
+  mkdir -p "$srcdir"/diamond-$pkgver/build
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir"/diamond-$pkgver/build
+
+  cmake \
+    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
+    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
+    ..
+
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$srcdir"/diamond-$pkgver/build
+
+  # shellcheck disable=2154
+  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+}
diff --git a/BioArchLinux/diamond/lilac.yaml b/BioArchLinux/diamond/lilac.yaml
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+build_prefix: extra-x86_64
+maintainers:
+  - github: github.com/kbipinkumar
+    email: bipin@ccmb.res.in
+pre_build_script: |
+  update_pkgver_and_pkgrel(_G.newver.lstrip('v'))
+  run_cmd(['updpkgsums'])
+post_build_script: |
+  git_add_files('PKGBUILD')
+  git_commit()
+  update_aur_repo()
+update_on:
+  - source: github
+    github: bbuchfink/diamond
+    use_max_tag: true
+    prefix: 'v'