TraitSeq applies cutting-edge AI to accurately predict complex agricultural traits, for the development of high-yielding and climate-resilient crop varieties, animal breeds, agrochemical and biological inputs, and gene edits that are critical to feeding an increasing global population. TraitSeq, an AI-based pipeline accelerates product development to enrich breeding strategies.
TraitSeq is a low-cost, high throughput, platform technology that uses bespoke machine learning methods to identify biomarkers that are utilised for training predictive models for complex traits in agriculture.
TraitSeq’s trait prediction models achieve beyond state-of-the-art levels of accuracy and can incorporate environmental variation – enabling highly accurate trait performance predictions in the field.
Global food security
TraitSeq will benefit the agricultural sector in the areas of breeding, gene editing, and crop protection to increase the efficiency of crop development and increase food production.
Ability to directly predict complex traits
TraitSeq enables breeders to directly predict complex traits across their livestock or germplasm to determine which are the best performing lines for important complex traits in a much faster and cost-effective approach.
Crop resilience to climate change
Using TraitSeq to identify biomarkers for traits associated with climate change such as water use efficiency, the development of crops can be accelerated making them more robust to environmental variation and the environmental challenges of the future.
Gene editing
Early evaluation of gene edits could be possible through TraitSeq’s complex trait prediction models, significantly improving the efficiency and speed of validating gene edits whilst also reducing the cost. In addition to providing early evaluation of gene edits, TraitSeq’s generated biomarkers could serve as novel targets for editing.
Technology
Accurate
TraitSeq’s machine learning models are demonstrably more accurate compared to existing models.
Flexible
TraitSeq’s pipeline enables the submission of new samples or can recycle existing datasets.
Competitive
Early, rapid, and cheaper evaluation of gene edits for complex traits.
Time saving
Biomarker-based models that are significantly faster compared to field trials.
Complex Traits
Time-consuming and expensive traits to measure such as nitrogen use efficiency and disease resistance can be incorporated in breeding programmes using TraitSeq’s predictive models.
Range of Applications
TraitSeq’s scalable & high throughput assessment has a variety of application such as crop breeding, gene editing, livestock breeding, and gene discovery.
TraitSeq Team
Dr Josh Colmer
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Joshua Colmer, CEO, and co-founder of TraitSeq, is an Agritech entrepreneur who combines his bioinformatics and commercial experience to deliver the company’s AI-based technology. Josh’s technical and commercial skills are invaluable.
Prof Anthony Hall
Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
Prof. Anthony Hall (CSO), renowned in the field of plant genomics, leads the discipline at the Earlham Institute. Leveraging his extensive network within crop breeding, he played a crucial role in securing key partnerships for TraitSeq.
John Bloomer
Director & Co-founder
As director of successful Agri-tech advisory company JMB Consulting (Pleshey) Ltd, John has over 30 years of commercial expertise in global research-based agribusiness. He plays an indispensable role in shaping TraitSeq’s commercial strategy.
Dr Felicity Knowles
Project Manager
Felicity is an experienced commercialisation professional with almost a decade of experience in supporting biotechnology projects in both industry and academia. Felicity is fortunate to have supported TraitSeq prior to their spin out from the Earlham Institute.
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