Stephanie Müller Email & Phone Number

My name is Stephanie Müller, and for the past 20 years, I have been a Rhodesian Ridgeback breeder, software developer, and passionate private researcher.The Rhodesian Ridgeback, driven by my love for the breed, has become the perfect subject for genetic research.In 2015, I founded the health organization "Ridgeback International" with the goal of preserving the Rhodesian Ridgeback as a healthy breed. The software developed for this purpose stores comprehensive data about dogs, including pedigree, X-ray results, diseases, offspring, genetic analyses, and much more. With over 100,000 Ridgebacks, this database has become the most extensive worldwide! But what sets this database apart from all others? First and foremost, it is not limited to a specific group of people but open to everyone, completely independent of any organization. Every Rhodesian Ridgeback is welcome without exception because every dog has the right to good health.Furthermore, this database is the only one that was built from the ground up to handle large amounts of data and process it at lightning speed. This applies not only to dog data but, above all, to complete genome analyses. The extensive number of markers that can now be determined on a single chip in laboratories requires matching software to process these data. All this information from a dog's DNA can be processed here and provided as a certificate on the fly. Particularly important is the ability for breeders to see in advance what genetic coefficient of inbreeding (eCOI) to expect in their planned litters. Our Matchmaker tool makes this possible.