We chat to the author of SNP-sites, bioinformatics software for extracting SNPs from a multi-FASTA alignment. Sounds simple but behind all of our software are quirky details that never make it into the final paper. Software: https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/snp-sites Paper: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen/10.10 99/mgen.0.000056 “SNP-sites: rapid efficient extraction of SNPs from multi-FASTA alignments”, Andrew J. Page, Ben Taylor, Aidan J. Delaney, Jorge Soares, Torsten Seemann, Jacqueline A. Keane, Simon R. Harris, Microbial Genomics 2(4), (2016)