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.
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.
Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.
Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.
High-quality reference genome assemblies improve Genomic Selection and breeding
With increasing sample numbers comes the need for automating the most valuable and most often applied protocols at Genetwister.
Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation.
High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.
To interconnect different knowledge domains, we use different semantic web technologies.