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.
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.
Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.
High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.
Genetwister investigates new precision phenotyping methods to integrate phenotypic data into genetic models to support 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.
High-quality reference genome assemblies improve Genomic Selection and breeding
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.
At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.
To interconnect different knowledge domains, we use different semantic web technologies.
Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.