Association analysis

With increasing sample numbers comes the need for automating the most valuable and most often applied protocols at Genetwister.

Genetwister investigates new precision phenotyping methods to integrate phenotypic data into genetic models to support breeding

Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.

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.

Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.

Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding

High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.

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.

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.