Project description:<p>Chicken farming is critical for future food security, yet there is still a need for improving animal welfare and optimised feeding strategies. HoloFood will explore the interaction and impact of the microbiome together with the host (animal) in response to different feeding strategies already implemented commercially. Chicken farming has recently made huge efforts towards healthy, natural food production without using chemicals or antibiotics in food systems. As such natural alternatives, such as prebiotic and probiotic additives to chicken feed, have been a huge improvement. Nonetheless, the full impact of these natural alternatives and the variation in chicken growth is still poorly understood. HoloFood aims to investigate the effect and interplay between the host (chicken) - microbiome in response to different dietary additives.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>HoloFood Trial 1/2/3</strong> is reported in the current study <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS6988' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS6988</strong></a>.</p><p><strong>HoloFood Trial A - seaweed-dose response</strong> is reported in <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS4381' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS4381</strong></a>.</p><p><strong>HoloFood Trial B - blue mussel-dose response</strong> is reported in <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS4382' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS4382</strong></a>.</p><p><strong>HoloFood Trial C - blue mussel ensilage-dose response</strong> is reported in <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS4384' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS4384</strong></a>.</p><p><strong>HoloFood Trial D - fermented seaweed open water-dose</strong> response is reported in <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights/MTBLS6733' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'><strong>MTBLS6733</strong></a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Linked cross omic data sets:</strong></p><p>Nucleic acid data associated with this study are available in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA): accession number <a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB43192' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'>PRJEB43192</a>.</p><p>Metagenomic data associated with this study are available from MGnify under the Super Study '<a href='https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/super-studies/holofood' rel='noopener noreferrer' target='_blank'>holofood</a>'.</p>
