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.
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.
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.
Discovery of markers in all plant species by next-generation sequencing for accelerated plant breeding
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.
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.
High performance BLAST implementation adapted to run in Spark clusters.
High-quality reference genome assemblies improve Genomic Selection and breeding