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Correction, 4 October 2026. Some entries below described features that do not exist or overstated them; each is annotated where it appears. In short: Seven Australian formats are auto-detected; other parsers are unvalidated. Market prices are MLA's Australian indicators. Fleece traits carry no economic weight until AWEX price guides are licensed. There is no daily global learning loop or cross-farm aggregation. Per-farm GWAS / DGV is not yet built.
Global Tier 1 native coverage · 21 parser definitions across 11 countries.
Correction 2026-10-04: Seven Australian formats are auto-detected; other parsers are unvalidated.
15 Tier 2 → Tier 1 parser promotions
ANCP Nelore (BR), KAPE Hanwoo (KR), AAA Angus (US), AHA Hereford (US), ICBF (IE), NAV Nordic (SE/DK/NO/FI), Logix Beef (ZA), Wagyu AGE (AU), Signet BeefBreeder (GB), World Angus Eval (multi-country), SIL (NZ), Signet Sheepbreeder (GB), Sheep Ireland (IE), NSIP (US), Fjárvís RML (IS). PLANNED_INGESTORS registry now empty.
Architecture documentation surface
/architecture.html — single-page documentation of the 12-layer engine pipeline (eval translator → catalogue parsers → country registry → bioeconomic engine → discounted gene flow → closed-loop calibration → production-system modifier → methane economics → frontier extensions → currency/FX → vernacular resolver → daily global learning loop). Every layer cross-linked to its source file. Correction 2026-10-04: the daily global learning loop was never built and has been removed from the architecture page.
Production system catalogue + live sync
/systems.html — public catalogue of all 22 production-system modifier codes (12 beef, 10 sheep) with multiplier tables. Live source-sync indicator at page load that flags drift between the static catalogue and the JS registry; currently reads green "Page reflects registry exactly."
7 country deep-dive insights articles
Brazilian Nelore, Korean Hanwoo, US feedyard three-stage chain, NZ pastoral sheep, AU three-systems (Merino + maternal + shedders), Argentine pampas grass-fed, UK terminal sire EUROP deadweight grid. Every major beef-exporting country plus both major trans-Tasman sheep systems documented.
2 methodology insights articles
Closed-loop calibration ridge regression (with worked example from a 1,200-head composite); methane economics as a first-class breeding axis (with $30/t and $90/t CO₂e scenario tables across 6 country carbon markets).
Cattle + sheep maths in methodology
4 new sheep-specific maths blocks added to /methodology.html: NLW closed-form, wool-quality bioeconomic anchor with AWEX micron curve (Fleece traits carry no economic weight until AWEX price guides are licensed.), maternal-vs-terminal split, pelt-primary objective. Brings methodology to 9 total maths blocks across both species (5 cattle + 4 sheep, 8 equations + 1 code shape).
For-researchers academic surface
/for-researchers.html — dedicated academic-collaboration inbound with citation BibTeX, data-access tiers (regional anchors, synthetic cohorts, translator fixtures, source-tree access), and the 6-bullet active-collaboration list (cross-breed composites, methane heritability, microbiome × phenotype, methylation, translator drift, bioeconomic validation).
8 new country-specific production-system codes
us_cow_calf, us_backgrounder, us_feedyard (US three-stage chain); hanwoo_intensive (KR alias); au_merino_wool, au_maternal_composite, au_shedder (AU three sheep systems); nz_pastoral_sheep (NZ); ar_pampas_grass_fed (Argentine Aberdeen Angus). Brings registry to 22 production-system codes.
Multilingual catalogue detection
KAPE parser handles Korean Hangul column headers (근내지방도, 도체중, 등심단면적); Fjárvís handles Icelandic (nafn, kyn, faðir); NAV handles Swedish (Far, Mor, Klass+Vikt); ANCP handles Portuguese (Nome, Sexo, Pai, Mãe, DEP_). Genuinely useful for native catalogue exports.
genemap-brand.css h3-h6 font clobber
Removed the !important h3-h6 = body-font rule that was overriding every page-level Instrument Serif heading declaration. Eight pages no longer need !important workarounds.
NATIVE_INGESTORS registry honesty
Trimmed eval-system-translator.js registry from 20 systems (overstated) to honest 6 → then expanded to 21 as Tier 2 systems were genuinely promoted with real parser functions. isNative() now returns correct results; previously was silently broken for 14 systems.
Mobile topbar overflow
Single media query in genemap-brand.css hides nav items below 700px, reduces brand wordmark size, tightens padding. Five page archetypes verified clean on iPhone-SE viewport (375×812): front page, about, systems, architecture, insights articles.
detectFormat priority ordering
Sheep parser: SIL → MERINOSELECT → LAMBPLAN ordered by signature specificity; LAMBPLAN bails on SIL markers. Cattle parser: AAA Angus bails on World Angus markers. Both fixes prevent broad fallback parsers from claiming distinct-signature catalogues.
Public surface refresh. Vernacular wired end-to-end.
About / Our story
Origin and engineering principles. The Clear Creek Pastoral Co context, the journey from spreadsheet to global platform, what shipping means here.
Public roadmap
Now / Active / Horizon / Research bands across 2026–2028. Methane economics, microbiome inheritance, methylation, cross-species composite prediction. Three roadmap-decision gates published.
Try Genemap demo hub
Five-demo guided path consolidating the bioeconomic engine, sheep equivalent, same-bull-six-countries, AI translator and the daily learning loop. ~15 min end-to-end, no sign-up.
Country-aware vernacular
Single source of truth for terminology — stud / seedstock / pedigree / cabaña, mob / herd, paddock / pasture / field, EBV / EPD / DEP, ute / pickup. Resolved live per user country across the UI.
Shedding sheep label normalisation
Hair sheep / shedding sheep terminology resolved per country: AU/NZ/UK "shedding", US/ZA "hair", MX "ovejas de pelo", BR "ovinos deslanados". Production-system labels honour the user's country.
Country production-system allow-lists
Normalised allow-lists across NZ/US/GB/ZA/BR to use canonical master codes. Graceful fallback returns full set if a country filter would otherwise produce zero matches.
Global launch · 18 countries, 22 production systems, 41 evaluation systems registered.
21 Tier-1 native evaluation parsers
Hand-written, deterministic parsers covering TACE, BREEDPLAN (cattle + sheep variants), IGS, AAA Angus, AHA Hereford, Zoetis Inherit Select, ICBF, NAV Nordic, Logix Beef, Wagyu AGE, Signet (beef + sheep), SIL, LAMBPLAN, MERINOSELECT, NSIP, Sheep Ireland, Fjárvís, World Angus Evaluation, KAPE Hanwoo, ANCP Nelore. Registry covers 41 evaluation systems globally; long-tail ones drop into the generic CSV mapper until a Tier-2 AI translator ships. Correction 2026-10-04: Seven Australian formats are auto-detected; other parsers are unvalidated.
Per-farm production-system modifier
22 system archetypes (12 beef + 10 sheep — housed ungtjur, Hanwoo intensive, pelt-primary Gotland, dairy sheep, shedding sheep / hair sheep, Wagyu long-fed feedlot, backgrounder, etc.) re-weight every trait correctly for your operation.
Mob-based ram + bull allocation
Mob-aware sire-team allocation as a self-serve product. Min-cost-flow optimisation, maternal/terminal split, inbreeding caps. Sheep and cattle parity.
Climate source priority chain · 17 countries
Per-country priority chain encoded (SILO, NIWA, NOAA, SMHI, Met Éireann, DWD, Met Office, INMET, Météo-France, SAWS, DMI, MET Norway, JMA, KMA, Copernicus ERA5). Today the live fetch path is the universal NASA POWER browser fallback — the country-specific proxy Edge Functions are on the API roadmap (see /api.html).
Market pricing scaffolding · 10 markets
Reference indicators for AWEX EMI, USDA AMS, MLA NLRS, AHDB, Bord Bia, EU MMO, Jordbruksverket, CEPEA, AgriHQ, CanFax encoded as hardcoded reference values. Daily live-pull Edge Functions are on the API roadmap — until those ship, producers can override the price in the Profile UI per-trait. Correction 2026-10-04: Market prices are MLA's Australian indicators. Fleece traits carry no economic weight until AWEX price guides are licensed. No world or daily global feeds.
Frontier signals
Methylation (HSP70, NR3C1, IGF2), microbiome FCE, methane intensity / ACCU integration as opt-in trait modifiers. Correction 2026-10-04: schema and modules, not live pipelines.
Public marketing surface
Coverage map of 18 countries, AI translator demo, world feed of prices (correction 2026-10-04: illustrative; Genemap currently reads Australian MLA indicators only), sheep-specific landing page, partners page, pricing tiers, get-started guide.
Genemap brand established. Architecture for global scale.
Genemap brand identity
Archivo Black wordmark in dark green. Instrument Serif editorial display. DM Sans body. Brand override CSS reskins all engine pages automatically.
Country registry
Single source of truth for currency, units, vernacular, evaluation systems, grading, climate source, market source, production systems per country.
FX engine
16-currency multi-currency support with conservative fallback rates. Correction 2026-10-04: the daily ECB FX refresh was never deployed; rates come from a static fallback table.
Country + town onboarding
60-second setup flow: pick country, town and production system → engine auto-resolves climate, currency, units, evaluation system and grading scheme.
Closed-loop calibration. Per-farm GWAS (withdrawn).
Phase 5.0c — closed-loop calibration
Multivariate ridge regression with VIF diagnostics fits realised slaughter $/head against EBVs. Calibration multipliers stack with discounted gene flow.
Phase 5.0d — per-farm GWAS (withdrawn 2026-10-04)
An experimental single-DGV and per-trait DGV ridge regression against realised profit was prototyped. Withdrawn 2026-10-04: per-farm GWAS / DGV is not yet built as a validated feature.
Mixed-model BLUP
Henderson's mixed-model equations for contemporary-group adjustment per progeny rollup, with variance components from a one-way analysis of variance (method of moments, not REML).
Bioeconomic foundations. Discounted gene flow.
Phase 5.0a — bioeconomic weights
Closed-form derivation of dollar value per EBV unit from seven farm-profile inputs. The producer's enterprise structure drives every weight.
Phase 5.0b — discounted gene flow
Lifetime expression valued via NPV-discounted daughter and granddaughter pathways at 5% p.a. Maternal traits get the weight they actually deserve.
Live market wiring
EYCI, ESTLI, feeder, heavy steer, cow rates, grain, urea pulled daily and re-derive weights in seconds.