Story of Genetwister
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
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.
Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding
High-quality reference genome assemblies improve Genomic Selection and breeding
CROPaware – A web based software platform for breeding and genomics data management.
Leafy - Our state-of-the-art lead dicovery platform.
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.