By the time I joined the Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia who are the pioneers in developing the ssGBLUP procedure, I found out that although single-step GBLUP (ssGBLUP) adds simplicity and flexibility to the genetic evaluation system, its implementation involves several details and requires knowledge and experience about peculiarities of the […]

Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the 16th Iranian and the 4th International Genetic Congress (GC2020), I would like to announce you that this congress will be virtually held on Skyroom jointly by the Iranian Genetics Society (IGS), the Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology (SIBBM), and the Universal Scientific Research Network (UCERN) from Wednesday […]

Theories of quantitative genetics have been established over a century ago and the foundation of these theories is based on infinitesimal model developed by Ronal Fisher (1918). The statistical framework developed by Fisher was restricted by the lack of molecular insight. However, the invent of next generation sequencing technologies along with declining the cost of […]

According to the most common inquiries from my students and colleagues, I decided to organize my github page (https://github.com/rostamabd) and would like to share with you six different repositories. These repositories include: Next Generation Sequencing Work-Flow Adding genomic evaluation (BayesB) to the QMSim program as an executable external Rscript file Post- processing of Random Regression […]

Surfing the net, brought up a paper from the editorial board of Genetics selection evolution journal (Genetic Selection Evolution’s Editorial, 2019) to my attention on perspectives research areas that probably they are the direction of future studies in Animal breeding: Studies on whole genome sequencing, targeted sequencing, exome sequencing, genotyped by sequencing in order to […]

For celebrating the 12 anniversary of my website/Weblog, I would like to provide you some links to the freely accessible Genomics and phenotypic data. Please remember that if you use these data in your research, it is required to cite the original data sources and articles. Data in the below databases are partly freely available […]