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CycDesigN: Optimal Experimental
Design Software

Start your high quality research with our
experimental design software, CycDesigN.

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Integrated with Genstat

Find out how you can use CycDesigN to speed up your design process and increase the scientific validity of your results.

Optimise Experimental Designs for Precision and Efficiency

CycDesigN is a powerful software tool trusted by researchers worldwide to create optimal or near-optimal experimental designs that maximise resource efficiency, enhance precision and deliver reliable results. Whether working on agricultural trials, breeding programmes or medical studies, CycDesigN provides the tools you need to streamline your experiments and uncover meaningful insights.

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Efficient Resource Management

CycDesigN generates optimal designs with one- or two-dimensional blocking structures to minimise resource use without compromising precision. Advanced design structures, including incomplete blocking, row-column arrangements, and spatial designs, allow you to achieve the accuracy of an additional replicate—without added cost.

Enhanced Precision

Increase experimental precision by up to 33% and detect significant treatment differences more easily. CycDesigN also supports spatial designs that use neighbour balance and evenness of treatment distribution to account for decreasing correlation as experimental units are spaced further apart, reducing trial variability by up to 50%.

Adaptable to Real-World Challenges

CycDesigN handles complex scenarios, such as site variation and experiments with residual effects. Whether your research involves plants, animals, or humans, CycDesigN ensures your experiments deliver robust, reliable results.

Easy Implementation

Once your design is complete, CycDesigN generates output programs compatible with Genstat and SAS, along with various file formats to simplify implementation in your trials.

Proven Track Record Across Disciplines

From breeding programmes to medical studies, CycDesigN is relied upon by researchers worldwide delivering significant cost savings and improved outcomes.

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New! Use CycDesigN from Inside Genstat...

CycDesigN now integrates with Genstat, making it easier to move from trial design to analysis without switching tools or duplicating work.

This connection improves workflow efficiency and gives you:

  • A faster, more streamlined path from design to results
  • The ability to reuse and adapt designs with saved scripts
  • Menu-based or batch design generation – whichever suits your workflow
  • One environment for design, analysis and reporting
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Flexible Experimental Design Options

CycDesigN supports an extensive range of statistically robust designs that are quick to generate and practical to implement:

Resolvable designs

An incomplete block design or row-column design can be arranged into groups so that each treatment appears once in each group. These can be latinised, t-latinised, or partially latinised based on design requirements.

Non-resolvable designs

Ideal for experiments that cannot be grouped into replicates, offering flexibility for complex setups.

P-rep designs

A flexible alternative to augmented designs with unreplicated treatments, p-rep designs can be constructed such that each treatment appears at most twice at each location of the experiment.

 
 

Crossover designs

Ideal for studies where treatments are applied in sequence over time, such as in medical, veterinary, or sensory research. CycDesigN supports a range of carry-over models and correlation structures to help you design robust, efficient crossover trials.

Row-Column and Spatial Designs

Optimise experiments that require precise control of environmental variability. These designs account for gradients and spatial correlation to improve accuracy.

Why Should You Choose VSNi For Your Design of Experiments?

VSNi is a world leader in the advancement of data analysis and statistical solutions for high quality scientific research. Our powerful experimental design software is used across the globe in a variety of specialist fields. Find out more about who we work with by viewing our case studies.

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Exploring CycDesigN experimental design software for your sector

Plant Breeding

Generate optimal or near-optimal p-rep, resolvable, and non-resolvable designs to maximise the value of plant breeding trials.

Forestry

Design experiments for breeding or research with ease. In a large Canadian forestry trial, an optimised incomplete block design required 25% fewer trees than a complete block design for the same precision

Medical and Clinical Trials

Construct precise crossover designs and other experimental layouts to improve treatment comparisons and achieve research objectives efficiently.

Veterinary Research

Ethically and scientifically sound experimental designs increase the validity of results in studies involving animals.

Sensory Analysis

Improve outcomes in sensory research with efficient crossover designs tailored to your study.

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CycDesigN can do for you

Your industry is unique, and here at VSNi we want to make sure you have all the right tools to get the most out of your experiments. If you have any questions, or would like to find out more about CycDesigN, get in touch with our team.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Experimental Design Software?

Experimental design software is used to generate experimental designs for trials in a wide range of industries. CycDesigN aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of tests to ensure that experiments are designed and executed in a rigorous and systematic manner, allowing for more accurate and reliable results.

CycDesigN is commonly used in a wide variety of industries including plant science and forestry. Using experimental design software provides a safe and ethical alternative for optimising designs within medical/clinical and veterinary testing.

Check out our array of resources to become an expert on using experimental design software including our knowledge base and tutorial videos.

Knowledge Base

How to use CycDesigN

Tutorial Videos

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