In 2009, Bejo Zaden B.V. and East-West Seed Group acquired shares of the company, and in 2011, Agribio, now named Dummen Orange, joined as shareholder. In 2013 Known You Seed Co., Ltd joined as a shareholder, and from January 2014, Sakata Seed Corporation became a new shareholder.
Genetwister investigates new methods to integrate phenotypic data into genetic models to support breeding
Genomic selection (GS) is an alternative to marker-assisted selection, which can accelerate the genetic gain through shorter breeding cycles. Genetwister is implementing new breeding schemes and methods that integrate GS for crop improvement.
At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.
Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.
With increasing sample numbers comes the need for automating the most valuable and applied protocols at Genetwister.
Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.
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.
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
Improved genomic selection and breeding utilizing high quality reference genomes