Genotyping Solutions for Aquaculture  

Opportunity Biotech uses microarray technology to improve tilapia breeding and address the challenges to global food security

Opportunity Biotech, led by CTO Arthur Z. Wang, uses AI and advanced genomic analysis to enhance tilapia breeding in Taiwan. By leveraging big data and our Axiom genotyping solution, they aim to accelerate breeding programs, promote sustainability, and improve food production and disease resistance.

Improving chilean aquaculture with Axiom arrays

The Axiom array has been instrumental in identifying ways to improve Chilean salmon stock and in looking for ways to breed salmon that resist Pisciricketsia salmonis, a deadly bacterial disease that affects salmon farms worldwide. Axiom genotyping arrays help to identify genotypes that can resist disease, and to track the parentage of individual fish so that the highest-quality individuals can be designated as brood stock for future generations, a standard farming practice that is a challenge to implement in aquaculture settings. Because of the limited genotype information available for fish diseases and, secondarily, for the fish themselves, efforts such as Dr. Martinez’s have proven exceedingly valuable for growing the knowledge base for future research, in addition to immediate practical applications.

Genomics and increased selection accuracy in aquaculture

Matt Baranski, General Manger, Mowi (formerly known as Marine Harvest), describes the company’s process for ensuring the best-quality product possible. The company rears eggs and produces feed in-house. They use the most advanced tools available to make fish selection as accurate and high quality as possible for their customers. As part of this approach, breeding plans focus on genomic selection for economically important traits

Axiom expert catalog genotyping arrays

Our catalog array-based genotyping solutions are ideal for the identification, validation, and screening of complex genetic traits in plants and animals. Choose from our wide variety of predesigned arrays.

These low-, medium-, and high-density arrays offer the power and resolution for a wide range of applications in plant and animal breeding and genomics. These applications include studying marker-trait association, evaluating elite lines, and identifying multi-line reference populations, as well as research applications for genome wide analysis and selective sweep analysis studies.

Axiom myDesign custom genotyping arrays

Our catalog array-based genotyping solutions are ideal for the identification, validation, and screening of complex genetic traits in plants and animals. Choose from our wide variety of predesigned arrays.

Axiom myDesign custom Arrays give you the power to develop an effective array for genome-wide association, replication, fine mapping, and candidate gene studies in any species.

With Axiom myDesign custom genotyping arrays, fully- or semi-customized arrays containing 300 to 2.6 million markers can be designed. Use variants you provide, or choose SNPs from our Axiom Genomic Database, the world's largest resource of genotype-tested SNPs.

Multiple-species arrays are supported without any restriction on number of markers per species.