In September, the Genetwister employees went out for the yearly day out to encourage team building and enjoying some relaxing activities with each other. The program this year consisted of a bushcraft workshop with the “Burgemeester van Buiten” which included making fire, cooking over the open fire as well as forest shelter building and animal tracking on the Veluwe. After the morning program, we had the opportunity to play Boerengolf near Lunteren. The day ended with a great dinner at a tapas restaurant in Ede. We look back on a fun day full of great activities!
“We are excited to welcome Michiel to Genetwister as our new CEO,” said Joost Pekelharing, the chair of Genetwister’s supervisory…
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To interconnect different knowledge domains, we use different semantic web technologies.
Using the state-of-the-art technologies such as long read sequencing technologies, Genetwister is able to build high quality genome assemblies of novel species, and obtain long range genomic information such as haplotypes and structural variants.
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Genetwister investigates new methods to integrate phenotypic data into genetic models to support breeding
High parallel computing version of a sequence alignment application.
With the increasing demands for DNA molecule size and purity on the newest long read sequencing platforms, comes the need for developing new protocols for DNA isolation from different biological sources in the laboratory at Genetwister.
At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.
With increasing sample numbers comes the need for automating the most valuable and applied protocols at Genetwister.
Improved genomic selection and breeding utilizing high quality reference genomes
Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation