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Torsten Pook

@tpook92

Mathematician - nowadays genetics guy. Like to suffer #triathlon

Joined March 2018
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New in #G3journal: @tpook92 et al. used stochastic simulations with MoBPS software to show that rapid cycle breeding has the potential to be a valuable strategy in #maize breeding to achieve substantial genetic gains in a limited time frame. 🌽 Read more: buff.ly/43bZih8
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WHOOP WHOOP!🥳the first paper of my PhD just got published. It's an extension of the usefulness criterion by considering variances not only of offspring but also offspring of offspring doi.org/10.1186/s12711-024-0… @tpook92 @YWientjes @mariocalus @Breed4Food #wur_abg
Improving selection decisions with mating information by accounting for Mendelian sampling varian...

Improving selection decisions with mating information by accounting for Mendelian sampling varian...

Genetics Selection Evolution - Breeding programs are judged by the genetic level of animals that are used to disseminate genetic progress. These animals are typically the best ones of the...

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Check out the recent developments of miraculix, a library for efficient analysis of genomic data using CPUs and #Nvidia GPUs. Research led by Alexander Freudenberg and Martin Schalther (U. Mannheim), in collaboration with @WUR #wur_abg, and @HerdPlus frontiersin.org/articles/10.…
Frontiers | Accelerated matrix-vector multiplications for matrices involving genotype covariates...

Frontiers | Accelerated matrix-vector multiplications for matrices involving genotype covariates...

In the last decade, a number of methods have been suggested to deal with large amounts of genetic data in genomic predictions. Yet, steadily growing populati...

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The proceedings of @wcgalp2022 is now available online & open access. Over 3300 pages technical and species orientated innovations in animal breeding, and the contribution that genetics can make to solving societal challenges. doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-… @wcgalp2026 @WURlivestock
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There's still time to submit abstracts for poster presentations at this year's GRS/GRC in Quantitative Genetics and Genomics! Join us in Ventura this February: grc.org/quantitative-genetic…
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I am very happy because my first paper of the work I did as a student at @GoPlantBreeding just got published: acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.c… It is a comparison of two genotype imputation tools with some optimization of software parameters and imputation strategy.
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WCGALP2026@wcgalp20268 Jul 2022
This is my first tweet 🐣 We welcome @wcgalp2022 participants and those interested in #WCGALP2022 to follow this account @wcgalp2026 where we will discuss all things associated with WCGALP 2026 July 12-17 in Madison, Wisconsin 🇺🇸 youtu.be/ddPD-A39zYM via @YouTube #WCGALP2026
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Maren van Son@DNAMaren6 Jul 2022
Football match, 16 people, 10 nationalities. #WCGALP2022 @NDuijvesteijn @wcgalp2022 @mflderks
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Replying to @mila_leonie
@mila_leonie und ich haben an der @uniGoettingen farbigen Weizen entwickelt. Damit unsere Arbeit weiterlebt, haben wir Linien an die Saatzucht Breun verkauft. Lies hier nach für mehr uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.ht…
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I'm very sad to report that Bill Hill (of Hill-Roberston interference), my PhD advisor, has died. He was a very generous and supportive supervisor, and of course a great intellect.
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Pook et al. introduce a web-based simulation framework that combines a unified language to describe breeding programs, providing a flexible environment to log, simulate, evaluate, and compare breeding programs. #G3Journal @tpook92 bit.ly/3uQCd95
MoBPSweb: A web-based framework to simulate and compare breeding programs

ALT MoBPSweb: A web-based framework to simulate and compare breeding programs

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Local convolutional neural networks (LCNN) for genomic prediction. As long as sample sizes are big, #ML works. Collaboration on a #BMBF founded project with Torsten Pook and Henner Simianer @uniGöttingen go.uniwue.de/lcnn
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The Centre for Integrated Breeding Research (CiBreed) @uniGoettingen invites you to the 2nd CiBreed Fall Workshop (virtual) on the 29th of September! Cibreed brings together expertise from plant & animal breeding. Register here: uni-goettingen.de/de/628819.…
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EiB breeding scheme optimization manuals excellenceinbreeding.org/too… @CGIAR_EiB
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Our first endeavor of using convolutional neural networks for genomic prediction. #ML Analyses was lead by @tpook92. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Using local convolutional neural networks for genomic prediction

Using local convolutional neural networks for genomic prediction

The prediction of breeding values and phenotypes is of central importance for both livestock and crop breeding. With increasing computational power and more and more data to potentially utilize,...

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71st Annual Meeting in Porto onsite cancelled: the event will be held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have however decided to host the meeting as virtual event. The complete announcement is available at: bit.ly/2KCd64m
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Software Developers: You can help #fightCOVID by contributing to an open source project for monitoring new strains of the virus. Pantograph gives researchers a global view of our DNA knowledge so tests and vaccines can outmaneuver mutations. Graphgenome.org #covid_19_bh20
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George Mias@georgemias17 Feb 2020
New Priprint: Analysis of variance when both input and output sets are high-dimensional by Gustavo de los Campos et al. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Pleased to announce the 2020 summer course at @universityofga from May 11 through 29, 2020. "Programming and computer algorithms in animal breeding with focus on single-step GBLUP and genomic selection in practice". See nce.ads.uga.edu/wiki/doku.ph… for details.
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We are hosting a course on Data-Driven Animal and Plant Breeding and Genetics in Edinburgh April 27th-May 8th taught by @HickeyJohn @GregorGorjanc @IanJMackay @ChrisGaynor11 #Eduardo Covarrubias & colleagues bit.ly/384TXCD @roslininstitute @EdinburghUni @SRUC @CGIAR_EiB
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