I'm doing an MSc in plant breeding and genetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My research is simulation-based breeding and genotype-by-environment interaction. This page has my thesis (still in the works), the papers I have co-authored and the software I've written for research.
Thesis · now
AlphaSimR and APSIM, for sorghum.
A Shiny app that turns real marker data into an AlphaSimR founder population without writing R. Load a VCF, HapMap, numeric or PLINK file, check it, filter it and export what newMapPop() needs.
Tools: R · Shiny · golem · AlphaSimR · vcfR · data.table · ggplot2
A Shiny app for building genetic linkage maps and mapping QTL without writing code. It began as the final-year project of two colleagues and me at KNUST. Now it's an R package, with a hosted copy that runs in the browser.
Tools: R · Shiny · golem · onemap · R/qtl · ggiraph
A Shiny app for cluster analysis of marker, trait and sequence data. My colleagues and I built the first version at KNUST in 2022. In 2026 I rewrote it as an R package with a live demo.
Tools: R · Shiny · golem · ape · cluster · msa · ggtree · ggiraph
An Android app that counts bacterial colonies from plate photos, offline. Two small YOLO models do the counting, in about three quarters of a second a plate on my phone.
Tools: Python · Ultralytics YOLO26 · ONNX Runtime · Kotlin · Jetpack Compose · CVAT
Kena, A., Ogoe, E., Cruet-Burgos, C., Agyare, R., Adoma, N., Annor, B., Raymundo, R. and Morris, G. (2024).
Gates Open Research 8, 28.
Rice, B., Ogoe, E., Charles, J. R., Melgar, E., Marla, S. R., Felderhoff, T., Fritz, A., Morris, G. and Pressoir, G. (2026).
Flywheel genomics: simultaneous trait discovery and genetic gain in plant breeding
bioRxiv preprint. Submitted to Plant Communications.
