The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will contribute 15 million euros to a CropXR research programme into 'smart breeding' of more resilient crops. NWO’s grant marks the start of…
Researchers in the Netherlands at Genetwister Technologies, in collaboration with Dümmen Orange, have captured the full genetic information of the…
Researchers at Genetwister Technologies have generated a graph pangenome of seven cucumber varieties, capturing large-scale structural variation of this important…
Conventional genome assemblies collapse the genetic information of a diploid or polyploid individual into a single-haplotype representation. A single-haplotype representation of…
Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding
Appropriate experimental design and data analysis of breeding trials are essential. Genetwister offers assistance in the experimental design, taking into account all practical considerations of the breeding program.
Genetwister investigates new precision phenotyping methods to integrate phenotypic data into genetic models to support breeding
At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.
High-quality reference genome assemblies improve Genomic Selection and breeding
Genomic selection (GS) accelerates achieving genetic gain through shorter breeding cycles and is an alternative to marker-assisted selection. Genetwister implements new breeding schemes and methods that integrate GS for crop improvement.
Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation.
With increasing sample numbers and marker panel sizes, it is valuable to increase the throughput of sequencing and genotyping procedures. Genetwister develops cost-effective methods and applies available methods for allowing high-throughput genomics.
Using state-of-the-art long read sequencing technologies, Genetwister builds high quality genome assemblies of novel species and obtains long-range genomic information such as haplotypes and structural variants.
With increasing sample numbers comes the need for automating the most valuable and most often applied protocols at Genetwister.