PATASEL

LiPH4SAS enables both functional exploration at different scales and measurements at the animal level, on large groups of animals (horizontal phenotyping) with controlled health status, in controlled and characterized environments. The high-throughput phenotyping tools available to LiPH4SAS are currently too limited to meet expectations. The PATASEL project aims to make LiPH4SAS a reference research infrastructure for the agroecological transition of livestock systems, by providing efficient phenotyping tools and making high-throughput data available to scientific communities for key biological processes, their environment, and livestock management methods. The PATASEL project, led by the LiPH4SAS research infrastructure, aims to develop high-throughput phenotyping in the animal sector to promote, through a service offering and suitable technological developments, projects related to climate change adaptation and the agroecological transition of livestock.

To achieve these objectives, PATASEL will be organized as follows:

• Acquisition and installation of equipment for measuring priority traits for the agroecological transition.
• Interaction with other programme projects to define experimental protocols.
• Data management following the FAIR principles.
• Technological monitoring and development of new equipment prototypes.
• Support for equipment usage, co-construction, equipment training, and scientific publication.

These data will facilitate the development of predictive modeling (virtual twins) and enable the proposal of customized genetic improvement strategies and livestock practices to achieve multiperformance in systems. PATASEL has been partly built in interaction with other projects in the Agroecology and Digital programme involving animals (WAIT4, HOLOBIONTS, AgroDiv, and COBREEDING), ensuring the relevance of technological choices and contributing to the successful implementation of projects. The ambition is to make LiPH4SAS a reference research infrastructure at the French and European levels, which will become essential in the field of animal phenotyping for the agroecological transition for a broad community of users (researchers, research and innovation organizations, private partners, etc.).