Tool

SNPick is a fast and memory-efficient tool designed to extract SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) sites from large-scale FASTA alignments, taking into consideration IUPAC ambiguous nucleotides. SNP analysis is critical for understanding genetic variation, phylogenetic relationships, and evolutionary biology. SNPick was developed to provide a highly scalable and optimized approach to SNP extraction. Unlike snp-sites, SNPick employs parallel processing and an efficient memory management strategy, making it suitable for very large datasets. This scalability allows users to work with massive alignments, extracting SNPs in a fraction of the time and with significantly lower memory requirements compared to traditional tools.