We explain, not just deliver
Every engagement includes a walkthrough of what was fitted, why that model and not another, and what the estimates mean for your selection decisions. Students get a full teaching session.
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Your data, analysed properly — and explained until you can defend every number.
Trial data, marker data, or both — analysed on PlantNura’s own platform by people who work in plant breeding, explained in plain language, and delivered as a complete report with publication-ready figures and a teaching deck. No black boxes, and nothing you cannot defend.
Why BioMetriK
A number is not a result.
Plant scientists understand their biology. What usually stands between the field book and the conclusion is a licence fee, a method nobody explained, and an output nobody can interpret. BioMetriK exists to remove all three.
Repeatable, season after season
Your analysis lives as a configured workflow on our platform. Next season’s data runs through exactly the same models and figures, so results stay comparable year on year — without starting from scratch.
Your data leaves when we do
Encrypted in transit, access-controlled while we hold it, never reused for anything, and permanently deleted once you have your results.
Our workflow
Six stages, and your data goes home at the end of them.
You stay in control the whole way through, and you only pay once the work is in front of you and you are satisfied with it.
What we analyse
Whatever your data is asking, there is a model for it.
Six broad capabilities covering the analytical work of plant breeding and crop science. Every engagement opens with data QC — cleaning, outliers, assumptions — because that step decides whether the rest holds.
Design
Any design, analysed the way it was laid out.
Bring the design you actually used — not the one the software expects.
- RCBD
- Alpha-lattice
- Augmented
- Split-plot
- Diallel
- Line × tester
- NC designs
- ANOVA & contrasts
Variance
Separate the genetics from the noise.
What is real, what is the field, and how confident you can be in the ranking.
- Mixed models
- BLUEs
- BLUPs
- Variance components
- Heritability
- Repeatability
- Spatial adjustment
Environments
Where genotype meets environment.
Broad adaptation, specific adaptation, and which of your sites are telling you the same thing twice.
- MET
- G×E
- AMMI
- GGE
- Factor analytic
- Stability
- Mega-environments
Genomes
From markers to decisions you can act on.
Association and prediction handled honestly, with the assumptions stated rather than buried.
- GWAS
- Marker–trait
- Genomic prediction
- GBLUP
- Bayesian models
- QTL mapping
- LD
Structure
The structure already sitting in your data.
How your material groups, what drives the grouping, and which traits move together.
- PCA
- Clustering
- Discriminant analysis
- Correlation
- Path analysis
- Diversity
- Population structure
- Kinship
Prediction
When a straight line is not the answer.
Curves, thresholds and interactions that a linear model flattens out.
- Linear & non-linear regression
- Mixed regression
- Multivariate models
- Random forest
- Gradient boosting
- Neural networks
Who we help
From a first thesis chapter to a national programme.
The rigour does not change. The pace, the depth of explanation and the shape of the deliverable do. Choose the one that fits you.
What you receive
Your results, in the format you actually work in.
Every engagement ends in a complete report, generated on KropAnalytix — tables, figures and interpretation together. Pages from three sample reports:
- ReportsThe full analysis report in HTML and PDF — tables, figures and interpretation together
- Results filesEvery processed table and result as Excel, ready for your own downstream use
- FiguresEvery figure at publication quality, ready for a paper, a thesis or a board paper
- Teaching packA slide deck walking through what was done and why — to present, and to repeat yourself
How the work gets done
Analysed on a complete platform of our own — found nowhere else.
Most consultancies run your data through the same rented packages you could buy yourself. PlantNura built its own — an end-to-end stack from raw field book or marker matrix to genomic prediction and publication figures, in one system. Getting the analysis done is the least of it; the tools it is done with are the difference.
- Built in-house. Every method and every figure comes from software PlantNura wrote — not a patchwork of packages.
- Complete. Field book to genomic prediction in one workflow, with the diagnostics beside every result.
- Made for breeding data. Designed by plant breeders and quantitative geneticists around the questions a breeding programme actually asks.
Launching soon
KropAnalytix — The analytical engine. Ours, end to end.
One platform from design and data checks through mixed models, multi-environment analysis, quantitative genetics and genomic prediction — with the diagnostics beside every fit rather than buried in a log. Built for breeding data, and found nowhere else.
- Every method in one system, not a patchwork of packages
- Diagnostics and interpretation reported with every estimate
- The same workflow reruns on next season’s data
Launching soon
DataViz Pro — Every figure you receive, from our own platform.
Manhattan plots, biplots, heatmaps, dendrograms, spatial maps — produced in PlantNura’s own visualisation platform at journal resolution, in a style you can carry across a whole thesis or paper.
- Publication resolution by default
- One consistent style across every figure
- Regenerate a plot yourself when a reviewer asks
Data security
Your breeding data is yours. We are only holding it.
A trial dataset is years of crossing, planting and selection. We treat it the way you would: encrypted on the way in, reachable only by the person doing your analysis, never reused for our own work or anyone else's, and permanently deleted once your results are delivered.
Upload → analyse → deliver → delete. That is the whole lifecycle. No archive, no retained backup, no second use.
- Encrypted transferUploads and downloads move over an encrypted channel.
- Access-controlledOnly the person running your analysis can reach your files.
- Deleted after deliveryYour data is removed from our systems once you have the results.
- NDA on requestInstitutional and corporate clients can ask for a formal agreement.
Frequently asked
The questions clients ask first.
What does the first consultation cover?
What you have, what you are trying to answer, and whether the data can answer it. We would rather tell you a design cannot support the question you are asking than fit something that looks like an answer. It is free and carries no obligation.
What data formats do you accept?
All of them. Phenotype and field-book data in any spreadsheet or text format (Excel, CSV, tab-delimited), marker data as HapMap, VCF, PLINK or a numeric matrix, and whatever else your programme produces. Send it as it is — we handle the rest.
Do I need to know R?
No. Nothing you receive needs R or any other software: the report, the figures, the results files and the teaching deck open on any computer, and the walkthrough is pitched at whatever level you tell us you are at.
When do I pay?
After the walkthrough, once the results are in front of you and you are satisfied with them. Nothing is charged to see whether the work is worth having.
What does it cost?
It depends on the data and the analysis, and rates are set with under-resourced programmes and self-funded students in mind. Describe the project and you will get a scoped quote before any work starts.
Can you support a publication?
Yes — journal-formatted figures and a methods section written to be submitted, with the analysis described precisely enough for a reviewer to follow.
Can I cite the tools used for the analysis?
Yes. Every report names the platform the analysis ran on — KropAnalytix for the analysis, DataViz Pro for the figures — and both come with online tutorials and documentation, so they can be cited directly in your methods section.
How long does an analysis take?
It depends on the data and the question. You get a timeline with the quote, before any work starts, and we hold to it.
My trial did not go to plan. Can the data still be analysed?
Often, yes — lost plots, unbalanced replication, a missing environment. Mixed models recover a great deal, and we tell you first what can and cannot be salvaged.
Can you respond to reviewer comments on an analysis?
Yes. Send the manuscript, the comments and the data; we re-run or extend the analysis and give you the revised figures, tables and the wording for your response.
Do you work with programmes outside India?
Yes. Everything runs remotely — secure upload, online walkthrough — so location does not matter, and we schedule across time zones.
Will you teach my team instead?
Often the better answer. If the same analysis is going to recur every season, a training engagement, or one of the courses, leaves the capability inside your group instead of on our invoice.
Is my data really deleted?
Yes. Your files are removed from our systems once your results are delivered, and nothing is retained for reuse, training or reference. If you need that stated in a signed agreement, ask and we will put it in one.
Start with a conversation about your data.
Tell us what you have and what you need to conclude from it. We will tell you what is possible, what it involves, and what it will cost — before anything is committed.
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