Biosci (Thailand)

As the wholly-owned subsidiary, Biosci (Thailand) Co. Ltd. was founded in 2016. Biosci is responsible for the development support and promotion of VSNi products in ASEAN countries, including data analysis software, training and data management and analysis solutions.

PPP

Both Biosci and VSNC are part of the PPP (Public Private Partnership) between the VSNi group and IBP.

VSNC

VSNC was founded in 2013 as a wholly-owned subsidiary to VSNi. VSNC is responsible for the development support and promotion of VSNi products in China, including data analysis software, training and data analysis solutions.

VSNi became the private partner of Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP)

The IBP provides Breeding management system (BMS) which is specifically designed to help breeders manage their day-to-day activities through all phases of their breeding programmes. The statistical algorithms in the Breeding View were developed by VSN International Ltd.

VSNi

VSNi was formed in 2001 as a spin-off company from Rothamsted and NAG. This brought together the GenStat/ ASReml development group from Rothamsted with the statistical commercialization group from NAG to provide a stronger collaboration of research and development with sales and marketing.

ASReml

ASReml was first developed at Rothamsted.

GenStat

The development of GenStat at Rothamsted began in 1968, when John Nelder took over from Yates as Head of Statistics. GenStat began to be distributed outside Rothamsted during the 1970’s and, in 1979, its distribution was taken over by the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), one of the world’s oldest technical computing companies.

Prof. John Nelder

Prof. John Nelder was a British statistician known for his contributions to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. While leading research at Rothamsted Experimental Station, he developed and supervised the updating of the statistical software packages GenStat whose flexible high-level programming language allowed statisticians to formulate linear models concisely. Genstat contains powerful facilities for the analysis of variance for block experiments, an area where Nelder made many important contributions.

Frank Yates

Statistical computing began at Rothamsted when Fisher’s successor Frank Yates obtained an Elliot 401 computer – one of the first computers to be used away from its manufacturing base, and one of the first to be used for statistical work. This extended the tradition, started by Fisher, of conducting statistical research to solve real problems arising from biological research. The resulting new methods could now be implemented in the Rothamsted statistical programs to enable them to be used more effectively in practice.

Mr Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Fisher was the first to apply statistics in biological research. He worked at Rothamsted Research for 14 years from 1919, where he developed the analysis of variance (ANOVA) to analyze the immense data from crop experiments. Fisher realized the need for improved statistical techniques over the whole range of agricultural and biological research, and the groundwork for modern applied statistics was laid by him and his colleagues during the 1920s and 1930s. He is known as one of the three principal founders of population genetics. He outlined Fisher’s principle as well as the Fisherian runaway and sexy son hypothesis theories of sexual selection. He also made important contributions to statistics, including the maximum likelihood, fiducial inference, the derivation of various sampling distributions and many others.

History

Wellcome to our long History

We will show you our history from the origin to our current business