The COST Action EU-LI-PHE aims to foster the development, integration, organisation and practical implementation of technologies, tools, methods, approaches, models, expertise and resources useful to scan and interpret the animal phenome. Phenomics is emerging as a major new technical discipline in biology. Phenomics is focused on one major aim: to systematically describe the phenome, referred to as the physical and molecular traits of an organism. Participating partners of Breed4Food are Hendrix Genetics and Wageningen University & Research.