About Scilytics

Analytics software for breeding programs.

Scilytics builds software that runs established quantitative-genetics methods on the breeder’s own data, on the breeder’s own computer, tested against published studies for every species it covers, so breeders make better decisions, sooner.

Breeding programs collect trial and genotype data for years. Scilytics builds desktop software that turns those files into the standard quantitative-genetics results, from BLUPs and heritability to GWAS, QTL and candidate genes.

The name joins science and analytics: published quantitative genetics, turned into analysis a program can run itself.

Mission

To put rigorous breeding science in breeders’ hands, so better decisions come sooner.

Vision

Every breeding program decides on rigorous evidence, with its own experts in charge.

The problems Scilytics exists to solve

  • A trial takes years to score, and each analysis is set up by hand.

    A breeding trial runs for seasons or generations before the data is complete. When the data is in, the analysis usually runs on custom scripts, and how it is done depends on who runs it, which makes one trial or one year hard to compare with the next. Scilytics software runs the same published methods every time and records what ran, the settings and the key results, so the breeder and the statistician can keep track of every model.

  • Every trial has its own files.

    Each trial has its own layout and its own file quirks. The model gets re-coded, the plots re-made, the genotype file converted again for another tool, and the results end up in several places. Scilytics software reads the files as they come, works out the layout and proposes the model, then makes the charts and tables in one run and saves them all to one results folder.

  • Data that can’t leave the station.

    Breeding data belongs to the program, its institute or its funders, and some of it may not go to a cloud service at all. Field stations have slow or no internet. Software that needs a login and a server is out. Scilytics software installs on the program’s own computers and runs with no internet connection. Files and results stay on the computer, and the license is a signed file with no account and no server.

  • From results to a breeding decision.

    A BLUP table or a genome-wide scan is where the decision starts. The breeder still has to pick parents and markers and explain the choice to the program. Scilytics software keeps every result together with what was run and the settings used, so the reasoning behind a choice is easy to show.

How Scilytics works

  • Validated in two ways.

    Every analysis is validated in two ways. First, it follows established statistical methods for breeding. Second, we reproduce published analyses on publicly available data and compare our results with the reported findings. When results differ, we investigate the underlying methods and assumptions to understand why. This can show us where to improve our software, clarify a difference in method, or reveal an inconsistency in the published results. Every comparison is documented, and the published ones are on the Science page.

  • Support in writing, without your data files.

    Support is by email and the help center, with a first response within 2 business days. Nobody asks for a call, remote access or your data files.

  • Built for each species’ biology.

    Each species gets its own product, built around how it is bred: its genetics, its trial designs, its reference genomes and its gene annotations. Where a species’ genetics need different statistics, its product gets them.

  • Services

    Tailoring. On top of a license, we can adapt the software to your program: analyses specific to your trials, a connection to your breeding database inside your network, reports in your program’s format, the interface in your program’s preferred languages, or your institution’s look. Quoted per project.

Contact

Scilytics is based in Florida, United States.

General questions
contact@scilytics.ai
Licensing and quotes
licensing@scilytics.ai

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