The function of this group is to serve the animal nutrition research community by improving the use of predictive technologies and tools, to best utilize available platforms, and to work with researchers to effectively share, combine, manage, manipulate, and analyze models and modeling information.
Committee Members
Todd R. Callaway
University of Georgia
Ruminant Nutrition, Monogastric and Ruminant Microbiology
Hector M. Menendez III
Ruminant Grazing Systems
Ruminant Grazing Systems
Aline Remus
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Swine Precision Feeding and Nutrition
Heidi A. Rossow
University of California, Davis
Ruminant Nutrition Management
Sarah H. White-Springer
Texas A&M University
Equine and Livestock Nutrition, Skeletal Muscle Physiology
Objectives
- Coordinate with the NRC to support model development and maintenance.
- Identify the requirements to build a comprehensive cross-species feed database.
- Develop a database of observed data for model testing.
- Develop guidelines for data reporting in publications to better serve nutrient response model development.
- Provide guidance for future development of nutrient availability models.
- Identify methods to allow the use of a common software platform across species.
- Provide guidance regarding the deployment of open vs locked model code.
Past Committee Members
- Dominique P. Bureau, University of Guelph, dbureau@uoguelph.ca
- Ermias Kebreab, University of California-Davis, ekebreab@ucdavis.edu
- John McNamara, Washington State University, mcnamara@wsu.edu
- Emiliano Raffrenato, University of Padua, emiliano.raffrenato@unipd.it
- Nathalie Trottier, Michigan State University, trottier@msu.edu
- Robin White (Chair), Virginia Tech, rrwhite@vt.edu