Our partner DArT during their commencement of their operations, noted significant limitations in the user’s ability to extract valuable information from the data produced for them. This challenge continued to expand as the volume of data volume produced by the new sequencing technologies increased. DArT team developed solutions so that a large capacity could be accommodated with a wide range of tools in order to help users in this demanding task.

There are two domains in our data analytics:

• Support for our genome profiling services at various levels of marker density which focuses on effective extraction of marker information from the sequences; and
• Support for downstream applications of marker data produced by our DNA profiling services. Both of these areas are enabled by KDCompute application – an integral part of our KDDart platform.

KDCompute developed by Diversity Arrays Technology, can operate as a standalone application or in connection to a database. When connected to DArTdb– Inhouse Library information System  via DArTsoft14 plugin, KDCompute enables rapid marker data extraction from sequences produced on NGS platforms. Tens of thousands of libraries/samples can be effectively processed within hours; and in addition to marker data, a range of metadata for markers are also extracted and reported.

Browser-based application KDCompute provides user-friendly GUI to technical and complex programs that enables organizations to import their existing algorithms. A tool that has widely been adopted and used by most African breeders in analyzing DArTseq data. It consists of more than 30 specialized plugins used to perform a range of analysis relevant to breeding or ecology, including experimental design, analysis of filed data, population genetics, marker trait associations (GWAS) and Genomic Selection. Dozens of algorithms of various levels of complexity are “wrapped” into simple user interfaces which make the results just a few clicks away.