On March 8, the reporter learned from Huazhong Agricultural University that the school team developed a new tool for high-performance genome breeding big data calculation HIBLUP (Chinese name "Tianquan") after 5 years. A new strategy suitable for genome breeding big data calculation is proposed, which provides a new localized tool for efficient genome selection and precise matching research and industrial application.

It is reported that this technology was developed by the team of Professor Zhao Shuhong from Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Animal Breeding and Healthy Breeding Frontier Science Center. According to reports, as a new genome breeding calculation tool, "Tianquan" has the advantages of fast calculation speed and low memory consumption in the construction of individual kinship matrix, single-trait and multi-trait model fitting; it is also suitable for genome breeding big data calculation , can independently carry out genome selection and matching calculation. At the same time, "Tianquan" can run on various operating systems.

At present, relevant research results have recently been published online in the international academic journal "Nucleic Acid Research", and have been rated as "breakthrough progress" papers.

The Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, led by Huazhong Agricultural University, focuses on the field of biological breeding. At present, it has gathered 7 national key laboratories, 6 innovative research groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 7 academicians, including outstanding scientific and technological talents. A batch of breakthrough research results. At the beginning of this year, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory's "Chinese scientists discovered key genes for increasing corn and rice production" was successfully selected as one of China's top ten scientific and technological progress news in 2022.