Mouse Inventory Databases

Mouse Inventory Databases

A major challenge of maintaining an active mouse research program is keeping an accurate inventory of the mouse colony. This page provides links to two different solutions that have been used locally.

Murine Pathology Database (MPD)
Read more details about the MPD's features.    Amongst other things, the MPD is a system for tracking a mouse colony, a freezer inventory, histology records, plasmid maps and oligonucleotide sequences.  A subset of the MPD, the Freezer and DNA templates, are available as separate downloads.

Filemaker Pro Templates (fully modifiable)
Download MPD templates 2.5 MB zip file.

Requires FMPro v.7+.

Network compatible.

Compatible with Mac OS X or Windows

Read the online MPD instructions.

Download Freezer and DNA templates (0.34 MB zip file).

Requires FMPro v.7+

Fully modifiable and network compatible

Use Username "Admin". (no password).

Runtime Solutions (do not require Filemaker software)
Download complete MPD solution. (26.6 MB zip)

Fully functional Mac OS X demo.

No software required.

Layout (design) mode is disabled.

Download Freezer&DNA runtime solution

Fully functional on Mac OS X>

No software required

Layout (design) mode is disabled.

Store data for your freezer archives

Store Oligo sequences and Tm calculator

PCR protocols with Master Mix calculator

For questions, comments or suggestions, contact: Matthew Fero

Mouse Lab
A comprehensive mouse database has been developed by the Greenberg lab with many advanced capabilities.  It uses Cocoa (Mac OS X) front-end on top  of a MySQL database. which makes it extremely fast with a large capacity.  The database is "cage-centric" meaning that it carefully tracks the physical location of cages within a rack and within a room.  A nice drag and drop interface facilitates the movement of mice and cage lcations.  Contact Norm Greenberg for more details.