solGS: A Web-based Solution for Genomic Selection

Genomic selection, due to its reliance on dense genome-wide markers and statistical complexity, presents significant challenges in data management, analysis and sharing results. solGS, a web-based tool, meets these challenges; it has a database to store phenotype and genotype data and an intuitive web-interface for statistical analyses. It uses RR-BLUP for the statistical modeling and GBLUP method for breeding values estimation. It performs also descriptive statistics, population structure, phenotypic and genetic correlations, and selection index analyses. It visualizes data in interactive plots on the browser. solGS is, currently, used by the NextGen Cassava Breeding Project (http://nextgencassava.org) and implemented on http://cassavabase.org/solgs. GS breeders can adapt the tool for any organism.