With pleasure we invite you for the seminars on October 17th. In this attachment you will find the program. The morning session is an update on the latest developments from a broiler breeding program and the afternoon provides views of Ben Hayes, Michel Georges and Peter Visscher and the running Breed4Food projects on how animal breeders…
On the 5th of February 2019, the B4F Big Data team organised a training workshop on the implementation of a data lake stack within the domain of animal breeding. The workshop was held at Zodiac, Wageningen, and attracted 20 participants from the industry and WUR. Since the start of B4F Precision Phenotyping in 2017, the…
In collaboration with the Technical University of Delft, researchers at Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding and Genomics (WUR-ABG), have recently implemented an efficient algorithm, called the deflated preconditioned conjugate gradient method. This algorithm, new in animal breeding, aims to allow large routine single-step genomic evaluations to predict genomic breeding values more accurately. First tests…
