In 2009 Bejo Zaden B.V. and East-West Seed Group acquired shares of the company, and in 2011, Agribio, now named Dümmen Orange, joined as shareholder. In 2013 Known You Seed Co., Ltd joined as a shareholder and in January 2014, Sakata Seed Corporation became a shareholder of Genetwister.
At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.
Appropriate experimental design and data analysis of breeding trials are essential. Genetwister offers assistance in the experimental design, taking into account all practical considerations of the breeding program.
Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.
Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding
Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.
High-quality reference genome assemblies improve Genomic Selection and breeding
To interconnect different knowledge domains, we use different semantic web technologies.
Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation.
CROPaware – A web based software platform for breeding and genomics data management.
Leafy - Our state-of-the-art lead dicovery platform.
With increasing sample numbers comes the need for automating the most valuable and most often applied protocols at Genetwister.