Genetwister is an innovative Dutch biotechnology company founded in 1998 specialized in molecular breeding and bioinformatics of agricultural, horticultural and ornamental plants. Through our research projects we help our customers improve crop quality to enable more sustainable farming and a more reliable food supply for the future. Our shareholders are five internationally renowned vegetable and ornamental breeding companies we are proud to serve.
Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.
To interconnect different knowledge domains, we use different semantic web technologies.
At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.
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.
Genetwister investigates new precision phenotyping methods to integrate phenotypic data into genetic models to support breeding
Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding
High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.
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.
Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation.
Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.