Breeding Management Systems (BMS) | Agricultural Software
The Breeding Management System is an easy-to-use software suite designed to help plant breeders conduct their routine activities with more efficiency.
Manage Plant Breeding with BMS Agricultural Software
The Breeding Management System (BMS) is a software suite specifically designed to help plant breeders manage their day-to-day activities through all phases of their breeding programmes. From straightforward phenotyping to complex genotyping, it provides all the tools you need to conduct modern breeding in one comprehensive agricultural software package. Â
BMS helps breeders conduct their routine activities with more efficiency, so that they can develop improved cultivars faster and at lower costs. It combines information management, data analysis and decision-support tools that accommodate common breeding schemes.
Key Features Included in BMS Agricultural Software
One system, all the applications you need.
- Maintain genetic relationships with a unified germplasm database and offers automatic pedigree generation.
- Control vocabulary for traits, factors, and treatments.
- Export your data to analyse with external software packages.
- Accumulate standardised breeding information for strategic planning and search across multiple trials for parental selection and product evaluation.
- Upload historical data, studies and field observations.
- View your seed inventory to add, reserve, and withdraw.
- Manage pedigree and hybrid breeding workflows.
- Design and record bi-parental and multi-parental crosses.
- Manage multi-environment evaluation trials.
- Develop planting maps with randomized field layouts for one or more trial environments: complete block designs, incomplete block designs, row-column designs, augmented designs, and p-rep designs.
- Support inventory management, planting, and selections lists of germplasm.
- Create your own naming and coding of breeding products.
- Advance nurseries by selection, bulk, or rapid generation advance methods.
- Supports data collection in multiple formats.
- Produce labels with barcodes.
Breeding activity management
With a comprehensive functionality and intuitive user interface you can manage your day-to-day tasks and inventories throughout the breeding season.
- Create a visual pipeline workflow for analyses.
- Analyse mixed model single-site phenotypic with correlation and spatial analysis options.
- Produce graphical and spreadsheet reports of analyses.
- Carry out single-trait and single-environment QTL analysis.
- Evaluate multi-site (GxE) phenotypic using traditional stability analysis, AMMI models and correlation modelling, with or without environment groupings.
- Export data for further analysis by any statistical package.
Statistical analysis
In modern plant breeding today, breeders have an increasing amount of data to analyse and need to make quick decisions. Breeding View (BV) links an easy user interface to our statistical analysis package, Genstat. Genstat is a world leading statistical analysis tool used and trusted by those particularly in plant breeding. The Breeding View allows for rapid phenotypic and genotypic analyses of field trial observations.
- Store and access low density fingerprinting data (<400K data points).
- Export to .csv and Flapjack formats.
- Create genotyping order forms.
- Store QTL and diagnostic markers.
- Sample studies and maintain sample lists.
Management of genotyping data
Genotyping data management (GDMS) is a prototype functionality designed to enable storing, searching and retrieving molecular marker information, genotyping data and genetic maps.
- Add, modify, view and search field data.
- Collect data in the following formats: numeric, percentage, categorical, date, Boolean, text, photo, counter, rust rating, and audio.
- Transfer data electronically between devices.
- Store QTL and diagnostic markers.
- Sample studies and maintain sample lists.
Field data capture
BMS can accommodate electronic data capture with a variety of devices.
- Access is password protected.
- Personalise your login and dashboard with your own logo.
- Full data control in a multi-user environment: share or restrict your data at different levels across the system with user roles and permissions.
- Customize program favourites and settings.
- Connect with our support channels directly.
Program and user management
API integration
The Breeding Management System works with an open access Breeding API, enabling interoperability between plant breeding applications. Developers are welcome to build add-on applications and integration services can be offered to assist you.
Why Choose VSNi for Your Agricultural Software?
VSNi is a world-leading data analysis software provider, working across a range of specialist industries. We aim to see the challenges of global food production eradicated through the effective application of data, analytics and technology. Find out more about the work we do by reading our case studies.
Get in Touch With Our Team
We want to make sure you get the most out of our Breeding Management System agricultural software suite. If you have any questions, or would like to find out more about how BMS can help your processes become more efficient, get in touch with our team.