High-throughput sequencing and genotyping

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

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

At Genetwister, tools are developed using distributed computing models and technologies like Spark and Hadoop.

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

High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.

CROPaware – A web based software platform for breeding and genomics data management.
Leafy - Our state-of-the-art lead dicovery platform.

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

Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation.

To interconnect different knowledge domains, we use different semantic web technologies.

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.