The Modular Breeding Program Simulator (MoBPS) is finally and offically published @imageh2020 @GeneticsGSA !

Our paper on an evolutionary algorithm for the optimization of breeding programs is finally out as a pre-print . We use MoBPS as the backend stochastic simulator but this can be replaced by other (less efficient 😎) simulators. Study was led by @hspazii

RT @tobiploid: WHOOP WHOOP!🥳the first paper of my PhD just got published. It's an extension of the usefulness criterion by considering vari…

RT @jeremievdp: Check out the recent developments of miraculix, a library for efficient analysis of genomic data using CPUs and #Nvidia GPU…

Beyond Scenarios - Our first paper on the general optimization of breeding program design is now available as a preprint. Analysis is led by @hspazii

Two weeks till our course on simulation of breeding programs with MoBPS (March 30 & 31). There are still 5 slots remaining. Course will be in-person in Wageningen. Registration at

RT @rfveerkamp: The proceedings of @wcgalp2022 is now available online & open access. Over 3300 pages technical and species orientated inn…

We are hosting a workshop on the simulation of breeding programs with MoBPS on March 30 & 31 2023 at Wageningen University & Research. Registration at

RT @elenabernabio: There's still time to submit abstracts for poster presentations at this year's GRS/GRC in Quantitative Genetics and Geno…

RT @tobiploid: I am very happy because my first paper of the work I did as a student at @GoPlantBreeding just got published:

RT @wcgalp2026: This is my first tweet 🐣 We welcome @wcgalp2022 participants and those interested in #WCGALP2022 to follow this account @wc…

RT @DNAMaren: Football match, 16 people, 10 nationalities. #WCGALP2022 @NDuijvesteijn @wcgalp2022 @mflderks

RT @tobiploid: @mila_leonie und ich haben an der @uniGoettingen farbigen Weizen entwickelt. Damit unsere Arbeit weiterlebt, haben wir Linie…

Some impression from the first openly available MoBPS workshop sponsored by GfT and @KWS_Group. It was a pleasure hosting the workshop for such a motivated group and spreading the word on our tool. All material from the 2-day workshop is also available at

Our first openly available workshop on the Modular Breeding Program Simulator will take place on March 24 & 25. Thanks to our partner GfT we can offer this without participation fees! The workshop will be virtual – for details see

RT @AdamEyreWalker: I'm very sad to report that Bill Hill (of Hill-Roberston interference), my PhD advisor, has died. He was a very generou…

@John_B_Cole Hopefully all sorts of shenenigans. Ready to be challenged in case something is not possible to be simulated =)

@chrisamiller I got a similar response when trying to submit an Application note style paper a couple of years ago. I contacted the bioRvix team, explained the situation and referred them to my user guidlines including examples, background ect. and they accepted it afterwards.

WCGALP 2022 is starting to approach (. I will be co-chairing the session on "Statistical genetics: Imputation" with @jeremievdp & Mehdi Sargolzaei. Looking forward to some interesting contributions! @wcgalp2022

RT @GeneticsGSA: Pook et al. introduce a web-based simulation framework that combines a unified language to describe breeding programs, pro…

As a strong proponent of open-science it feels strange to get a patent, but thanks to @KWS_Group for allowing us to make our new imputing approach for sequence data freely available to academia!