Genetic Evaluation Software

Software for running genetic evaluations and predicting breeding values

MiXBLUP

Commercial

Jan ten Napel, Jeremie Vandenplas (Wageningen)

Built on Mix99. More affordable than other options. Cannot estimate variance components, only run evaluations with pre-estimated parameters.

BLUPF90

Commercial

Ignacy Misztal (UGA)

Also used for running genetic evaluations. Requires license for iteration on data. Long running software used by many companies.

BOLT

Commercial

Dan Garrick, Dorian Garrick, Bruce Golden

GPU accelerated software for extremely high performance and/or large scale genetic evaluations and breeding value prediction. Utilised in multiple very large multi-country and multi-breed implementations.

Mix99

Commercial

Finland

Base software for MiXBLUP. Solves large mixed model equations efficiently.

PEST

Deprecated

Deprecated software for pedigree analysis and genetic evaluations.

This software is no longer maintained