"THE AVAILABILITY OF COMPLETE GENOMES HAS DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED THE CHARACTERIZATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND SELECTION FOOTPRINTS IN CROP AND LIVESTOCK SPECIES, AND HAS POTENTIALLY MANY APPLICATIONS IN PRACTICAL BREEDING AS WELL. NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING (NGS) HAS CERTAINLY DEMOCRATIZED GENOMICS BUT, NOT UNEXPECTEDLY, THE DRAMATIC INCREASE IN COMPLETE GENOME SEQUENCES HAS RESULTED IN A BOTTLENECK ON HOW TO OPTIMALLY ANALYZE THESE VAST DATASETS.

Domopig is a research project whose aim it aims to create a platform to promote computer data of pig farms in order to optimize management. One of the idea, is to make interoperable all data recorded in a farm pigs to drive the livestock within a single interface and analyze all data collected to improve the livestock production. Funding by "Région Bretagne" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJA9i64M3mY

The project goal is to create an infrastructure that will permit to evaluate data in precision livestock farming along the value chain with the stages breeding/piglet production, fattening, and slaughterhouse across farms, farming branches, applications and standards. This includes data from external sources, e.g. on veterinary medical products and feed stuff. The results of the project are generic semantic models, which describe data independent of their syntactic structure and thus allow to easily convert data between different formats of representation.

Objectives The overall aim of the proposed research is to explore the benefits of closely meeting the changing nutrient requirements of individual sows during gestation and across parities, in a group housing system and using computer controlled electronic sow feeders. Specific objectives are to determine the effect of meeting the estimated nutrient requirements of individual (parity 1, 2 or 3) sows on: 1.Sow welfare and reproductive performance: sow behaviour, injuries and health, litter size at birth, mean and average piglet weight at birth and weaning, sow feed intake and body weight c

The aim of the project is to develop an ICT based tool for performance and welfare monitoring of pigs at the individual level. Warning signs, such as alterations in animal behaviour and some other parameters, enable an early detection of diseases or environmental related problems. Since the routinely gathering behavioural information from animals to evaluate their performance and welfare is very time-consuming for farmers, the new technologies demonstrably aid this task (Wathes et al., 2008), especially with large herds.

This project unusually involves a consortium of prime producers and technology suppliers. It is farmers who will actually deliver on sustainable intensification and that is why this project involves them directly as full partners. Entitled Real-time Information Systems for Precision Pig Production, the project will commercially pilot a recently developed system - Guardian Action - as a precursor to full UK industry roll out.

Consortium members have worked in real-time monitoring and data capture for 15 years. It has shown that significant productivity gains can be made through monitoring.