Technical note: an R package for fitting sparse neural networks with application in animal breeding

• Published in: Journal of animal science Vol. 96; no. 5; p. 2016
• Main Authors: Wang, Yangfan, Mi, Xue, Rosa, Guilherme J M, Chen, Zhihui, Lin, Ping, Wang, Shi, Bao, Zhenmin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 04.05.2018
• Subjects: Animals; Bayes Theorem; Breeding; Female; Genetic Markers - genetics; Genomics; Genotype; Male; Neural Networks (Computer); Software

Neural networks (NNs) have emerged as a new tool for genomic selection (GS) in animal breeding. However, the properties of NN used in GS for the prediction of phenotypic outcomes are not well characterized due to the problem of over-parameterization of NN and difficulties in using whole-genome marke...