CGS

Canine Genetic Services

Using Data for Improved Decision Making

For four decades, Canine Genetic Services has applied quantitative genetics and statistics to help breeders and working-dog organizations make better decisions — from breeding-program design to database systems and statistical analysis.

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Consulting grounded in 40+ years of animal-breeding, genetics, and data experience — and in building the International Working Dog Registry.

Canine Breeding Program Design

Optimize a breeding program for the most genetic improvement each year.

Statistical Analysis

Turn your data into decisions with R, SAS, and Stata analysis.

Online Database Creation

Cloud databases (MySQL/PHP), built on our International Working Dog Registry experience.

Data Importation

Move data out of spreadsheets and keep systems in sync — one-time or automated.

Cloud-Based Linux Server Maintenance

Ongoing Linux server support in the cloud, with DigitalOcean expertise.

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A freely searchable collection of papers, most of which are peer-reviewed

Alongside our consulting, we maintain a self-hosted library of 2,418 papers and other reference works, most of which focus on genetics, animal breeding, or statistics — 827 open access — accumulated over more than 40 years.

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