OptimaRs is a decision support tool to conduct Marker-Assisted Selection programmes.
OptimaRs screen
OptimaRs includes in a Graphical User Interface (GUI), three different modules corresponding to the different steps of a selection programme :
Using information given by markers located in the vicinity of the estimated QTL positions, probabilities of favorable parental QTL allele transmission are computed in different MAS schemes and mating designs (intercrossing, selfing, backcrossing, double haploids, RIL) with the possibility of considering generations without genotypic information (step 1). Then strategies are proposed to select the best plants (step 2), and efficiently intermate them based on the expected value of their progenies (step 3).