Mathematician - nowadays genetics guy. Like to suffer #triathlon
Joined March 2018
- Tweets52
- Following142
- Followers185
- Likes95
Pinned Tweet
The Modular Breeding Program Simulator (MoBPS) is finally and offically published @imageh2020 @GeneticsGSA ! g3journal.org/content/10/6/1…
Torsten Pook retweeted
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
Our paper on an evolutionary algorithm for the optimization of breeding programs is finally out as a pre-print arxiv.org/abs/2407.17286 . We use MoBPS as the backend stochastic simulator but this can be replaced by other (less efficient 😎) simulators.
Study was led by @hspazii
Torsten Pook retweeted
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
Torsten Pook retweeted
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.…
Beyond Scenarios - Our first paper on the general optimization of breeding program design is now available as a preprint. Analysis is led by @hspazii biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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 wias.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta…
Torsten Pook retweeted
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
We are hosting a workshop on the simulation of breeding programs with MoBPS on March 30 & 31 2023 at Wageningen University & Research. Registration at wias.crs.wur.nl/courses/deta…
Torsten Pook retweeted
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…
Torsten Pook retweeted
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.
Torsten Pook retweeted
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
Torsten Pook retweeted
@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…
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 github.com/tpook92/MoBPS
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 mobps.de/intro
Torsten Pook retweeted
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.
WCGALP 2022 is starting to approach (wcgalp.com/).
I will be co-chairing the session on "Statistical genetics: Imputation" with @jeremievdp & Mehdi Sargolzaei.
Looking forward to some interesting contributions!
@wcgalp2022
Torsten Pook retweeted
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
ALT MoBPSweb: A web-based framework to simulate and compare breeding programs
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!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Torsten Pook retweeted
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