Optimate: Powerful Software for Designing Aquaculture Breeding Programmes
Beyond Traditional Breeding: The Optimate Difference For centuries, selective breeding followed the same basic approach. Farmers selected the biggest and best performing animals, achieving incremental improvements over decades—often at the significant cost of inbreeding. This approach, while intuitive, has severe limitations in modern aquaculture where precision, speed and genetic diversity are paramount. Enter Optimate—Xelect’s groundbreaking […]
Unlocking the Potential of Aquaculture Breeding Through Bioeconomic Modeling
At Xelect, we’re constantly innovating to support our clients in achieving sustainable and profitable aquaculture. In this video, Dr. Mark Looseley, our Head of Genetics, explores our approach to marry genetics and economics for more effective breeding decisions. https://youtu.be/jC1BLvGay2c Breeding programs are at the heart of aquaculture’s progress, delivering the genetic improvements that drive growth, […]
Genetics: a secret weapon against sea lice
Dr Marie Smedley explores how genetics is an undervalued resource in the fight against common parasites.
Xelect collaboration reveals even greater potential for natural genetic variation to boost aquaculture
For decades we’ve known that well designed genetic selection programmes can result in major gains in fish production. However new research into Atlantic salmon, spearheaded by Dr Alicia Bertolotti, has highlighted a hitherto untapped resource of genetic variation that could help unlock even greater production benefits. The most common type of genetic variant distinguishing individuals […]
Genetics in a nutshell
Genetic breeding programmes may sound complicated and expensive, but Xelect make them straightforward and affordable. If you’re wondering how they work in practice check our short video.
