Genetwister is an innovative Dutch biotechnology company founded in 1998 specialized in molecular breeding and bioinformatics of agricultural, horticultural and ornamental plants. Through our research projects we help our customers improve crop quality to enable more sustainable farming and a more reliable food supply for the future. Our shareholders are five internationally renowned vegetable and ornamental breeding companies we are proud to serve.
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Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding
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 most often applied protocols at Genetwister.
Acceleration and cost reduction in plant breeding with improved genotype/phenotype relations, utilizing linked variants.
Advanced statistical models are needed to increase the power to discover (new) associations between genetic and phenotypic variation.
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.
High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.
Tailored marker selection allowing for genotyping regardless of species, genome size and ploidy level.
Genomic selection (GS) accelerates achieving genetic gain through shorter breeding cycles and is an alternative to marker-assisted selection. Genetwister implements new breeding schemes and methods that integrate GS for crop improvement.