Genovix®
Genovix® is an innovation in the plant breeding software industry and combines the latest application technologies with the needs of plant breeders and variety testers around the world.
Professional Services
Our team are as passionate about deployment as they are about agriculture. We can boast that we have experts in a range of deployment environments to help you deliver Genovix® plant breeding and variety testing software to your users in the smoothest possible manner.
Variety Testing
We offer a complete solution for all stages of variety testing - from data management and trial creation to field plans, statistical analyses, selection decisions and final reports.
Plant Breeding
Our software solution supports the breeding of many field, vegetable, flower and horticultural crops.
Seed Inventory
Seed and often stock (clones, cuttings) can be managed and tracked within a breeding or variety testing program.
Bio-informatics
Develop hybrids and varieties faster, more efficiently and with greater precision via bioinformatics tools integrated into your breeding program.
Cloud-based SaaS
We can host your data with our software on the cloud – highly secure, global access, always backed up – no worries.
Mobile Solutions
Off-line data capture has many advantages over field books or entering data into a spreadsheet.
Genovix Mobile® is compatible with Android® or iOS® phones or tablets as well as Windows® tablets.
Benefits of Genovix®
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Analysis
Integrated data analysis. No need to buy or license a statistics package since many usual statistical routines are built right into our system. There is even a spatial statistical analysis which reduces the CV in a field trial with estimable field trends. Trials rejected due to high CVs are costly to any research program.
Randomizations for experimental designs. Many experimental designs are directly integrated into the system, from randomization to analysis, such as split plots, factorials, lattices, alpha (0,1), RCBD, Latin squares, group balanced block, and more.
Tools to monitor research progress. Means for all analyses are automatically stored in the system for single-factor analyses, like variety yield trials, immediately ready for many types of reports. Critical decision tools include multi-year summaries for up to twenty years, complete with rolling averages for varieties that typically are unbalanced over time. A ‘head-to-head’ report will compare one variety to another or several other varieties from all experiments in common over all years and locations or any subset thereof. Key research decisions and budget allocations require some measure of progress over time. Incorrect or less than optimal decisions can prove costly.
Efficient import/export tools. Inevitably for any software system, data must be imported or exported, especially in conjunction with data loggers, palm-pilots, and co-operators in the same organization or external. An efficient set of tools have been developed to assist the user in importing data into a relation system, and quickly exporting data for any number of reasons. The most popular file formats are Excel® and dBASE® files.
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Breeding
Specialized analyses for agronomy and plant breeding. In addition to the usual statistical analyses, our system offers a number of helpful analyses, such as genotype x environment analyses, published by agronomists and breeders but not commonly available. Additional information and insights from more analyses of your data means increased confidence in decision making.
Pedigree data management. The plant breeding module supports self-pollinating, hybrid, clonal, annual and perennial, crops with cms or gms systems, and more. Germplasm management of parents, cross prediction, nursery design and management with female:male layout patterns, ISOs, linkage of populations and segregants across generations and back to parents, marker-assisted backcross breeding and much more are all integrated into Genovix®. All these tools and capabilities are directly linked to the agronomic system with yield trials.
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Data
Efficient data management. All research data is managed in a relational database with crops or research projects within their own research groups. Many tools for grouping and organizing the data over years, locations, experiments, and so forth help customize the data structure according to your needs.
Conventional data types plus images. In addition to the usual numeric and character data, you can also store and display images of varieties, experiments, disease reactions, rating scales, growth stages of a variety of experiment, and so forth. ‘Visual data’ can be very important in a research program, especially when comparing many genotypes for appearance or remembering what an experiment was like in a previous year.
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Planning
Support for field operations. Seed packaging, planting, and harvesting are important field operations for many experiments and trials. Our system has software tools specially designed to assist this part of a research program. With the visual field plan layout tool, you can easily prepare planting plans for thousands of plots per location.
Customization. Design labels, reports, and field books for your needs. Decide on trait and variable names throughout the system, and more.
Trace the planting history of any genotype. As part of data querying, you can view all the occurrences of a specific genotype in your entire research program, even by every plot number in every year and all locations. This can be time-consuming without a relational software system, and is important for some GMO compliance and reporting requirements.
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Security
Security. User names and passwords, set by an administrator, restrict access to a Genovix database, and upon entry controls access privileges of up to five levels for different main functions within the software. Access to any or all experiments and nurseries can be restricted for each user by an administrator.
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Speed
Immediate access to your data. The research data explorer permits direct and simple point-and-click access to your data – no need to bother about file names and directories. Save more time.
Timely data analysis. Some research programs have a small window of time for data analysis, especially breeding programs that must promote material to an off-season nursery in a matter of weeks. With time at a premium, you can analyze a trial at, say, 20 locations with 50 traits on average per location – 1000 ANOVAs with just a few keystrokes. More time to study the results means less pressure and better research decisions.
Immediate data query and extraction. Quickly view all or some of your data for an entire year, season, location, group of experiments or locations, or just for one single variety or group of varieties or treatments. The data appears as a spreadsheet and could be exported immediately as a file or form the basis for a report. These are some of the many advantages of a relational software system.
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Analysis
Integrated data analysis. No need to buy or license a statistics package since many usual statistical routines are built right into our system. There is even a spatial statistical analysis which reduces the CV in a field trial with estimable field trends. Trials rejected due to high CVs are costly to any research program.
Randomizations for experimental designs. Many experimental designs are directly integrated into the system, from randomization to analysis, such as split plots, factorials, lattices, alpha (0,1), RCBD, Latin squares, group balanced block, and more.
Tools to monitor research progress. Means for all analyses are automatically stored in the system for single-factor analyses, like variety yield trials, immediately ready for many types of reports. Critical decision tools include multi-year summaries for up to twenty years, complete with rolling averages for varieties that typically are unbalanced over time. A ‘head-to-head’ report will compare one variety to another or several other varieties from all experiments in common over all years and locations or any subset thereof. Key research decisions and budget allocations require some measure of progress over time. Incorrect or less than optimal decisions can prove costly.
Efficient import/export tools. Inevitably for any software system, data must be imported or exported, especially in conjunction with data loggers, palm-pilots, and co-operators in the same organization or external. An efficient set of tools have been developed to assist the user in importing data into a relation system, and quickly exporting data for any number of reasons. The most popular file formats are Excel® and dBASE® files.
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Breeding
Specialized analyses for agronomy and plant breeding. In addition to the usual statistical analyses, our system offers a number of helpful analyses, such as genotype x environment analyses, published by agronomists and breeders but not commonly available. Additional information and insights from more analyses of your data means increased confidence in decision making.
Pedigree data management. The plant breeding module supports self-pollinating, hybrid, clonal, annual and perennial, crops with cms or gms systems, and more. Germplasm management of parents, cross prediction, nursery design and management with female:male layout patterns, ISOs, linkage of populations and segregants across generations and back to parents, marker-assisted backcross breeding and much more are all integrated into Genovix®. All these tools and capabilities are directly linked to the agronomic system with yield trials.
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Data
Efficient data management. All research data is managed in a relational database with crops or research projects within their own research groups. Many tools for grouping and organizing the data over years, locations, experiments, and so forth help customize the data structure according to your needs.
Conventional data types plus images. In addition to the usual numeric and character data, you can also store and display images of varieties, experiments, disease reactions, rating scales, growth stages of a variety of experiment, and so forth. ‘Visual data’ can be very important in a research program, especially when comparing many genotypes for appearance or remembering what an experiment was like in a previous year.
-
Planning
Support for field operations. Seed packaging, planting, and harvesting are important field operations for many experiments and trials. Our system has software tools specially designed to assist this part of a research program. With the visual field plan layout tool, you can easily prepare planting plans for thousands of plots per location.
Customization. Design labels, reports, and field books for your needs. Decide on trait and variable names throughout the system, and more.
Trace the planting history of any genotype. As part of data querying, you can view all the occurrences of a specific genotype in your entire research program, even by every plot number in every year and all locations. This can be time-consuming without a relational software system, and is important for some GMO compliance and reporting requirements.
-
Security
Security. User names and passwords, set by an administrator, restrict access to a Genovix database, and upon entry controls access privileges of up to five levels for different main functions within the software. Access to any or all experiments and nurseries can be restricted for each user by an administrator.
-
Speed
Immediate access to your data. The research data explorer permits direct and simple point-and-click access to your data – no need to bother about file names and directories. Save more time.
Timely data analysis. Some research programs have a small window of time for data analysis, especially breeding programs that must promote material to an off-season nursery in a matter of weeks. With time at a premium, you can analyze a trial at, say, 20 locations with 50 traits on average per location – 1000 ANOVAs with just a few keystrokes. More time to study the results means less pressure and better research decisions.
Immediate data query and extraction. Quickly view all or some of your data for an entire year, season, location, group of experiments or locations, or just for one single variety or group of varieties or treatments. The data appears as a spreadsheet and could be exported immediately as a file or form the basis for a report. These are some of the many advantages of a relational software system.
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Meeting our clients’ needs forms the foundation of our continuous software development. Every new version contains improvements based on the requirements of real researchers worldwide.
Agronomix Support
Registered users of our software have access to unlimited technical support, upgrades and new releases for the duration of their active license. Genovix® is a new, evolving and powerful software product.
Our staff are experienced in plant breeding and agronomic research including a PhD in quantitative genetics. We recognize the investment and commitment you have made with our software and your need for qualified and on-going technical support.
Testimonials
I have been a user of AGROBASE at the SGI since 1993, the AGROBASE/4 DOS version. It has helped us keep all our data together. Where previously our data was all over all the computers in different file formats in our division, it was now connected to an entry for that specific year in a specific file, experiment or trial. With some power play, the data could be manipulated as I wanted it to analyse or display/print out.
When moving to AGROBASE Generation II – predecessor of Genovix - major problems were eliminated:
- Names of traits, entries, localities, etc. needed to be changed only in one place and have it reflected through the whole program instead of searching through all files for the names to be changed.
- All the info on an entry is connected over years and localities so that comparisons over years were quite easy to do.
With the development of Genovix, building on what AGROBASE has achieved, Agronomix once again kept their clients’ needs in mind while also looking to the future of agronomy advancements. While Genovix has a steep initial learning curve, the program's methodology makes perfect sense and workflow is quick and easy, thus giving us, the user's, the ability to do a lot of work effectively in the shortest possible time. Since moving the company, that I work for, over to Genovix I have completed work quicker and more effectively than before.
The learning curve of Genovix is eased by the creation of tutorials on every aspect of the software. These tutorials lead the user through the whole procedure of what he or she wants to do or know.
What I enjoy most about Agronomix Software is that they are open to communication with their customers. Any complaint, error reporting or suggestions receive immediate response from them, whether it is from their customer care desk, programmers or Dieter himself -- you will receive a reply!!
I can personally vouch for that as I have made a few suggestions and error reports myself which were incorporated or rectified as soon as their schedule allowed it.
I would strongly advise anybody looking to buy software for their research programs to take a closer look at Genovix as it is still growing and developing with the input from its users and the future views of the company itself.
I’ve been using Genovix for a few seasons and it has become an indispensable tool in my peanut breeding effort. Each year I’ve learned new functions within the program that improve the efficiency of my record keeping and data analyses. I appreciate the intuitive controls and tools that are clearly designed by plant breeders for plant breeders. It has been very easy to generate crosses, set up naming schemes for nursery selections, import field data, generate field books, design and map yield and nursery trials, then analyze the data all in one place.
My colleagues and I have been using Agrobase and more recently Genovix for the past 15 years to optimise our plant breeding in a range of botanical extracts in Tasmania, Australia. I am always impressed with the speedy response from Agronomix support staff.