A collaborative database of inbred mouse strain characteristics.
A database and website (MPD: Mouse Phenome Database) have been developed to serve as a consolidated home for mouse strain characterization data being generated by the scientific community. Physiological, anatomical and behavioral data are being collected and integrated into a common framework for tabulation by strain and sex. Genotypic data are being collected as well. The current focus is on a set of 40 inbred strains. The MPD as of February 2004 contains approximately 500 phenotypic parameters relevant to human health, voluntarily contributed by several dozen investigators and laboratories.


BACKGROUND
www.jax.org/phenome
Grubb
Stephen C
SC
The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA. phenome@jax.org
Churchill
Gary A
GA
Bogue
Molly A
MA
D000818:Animals; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005260:Female; D016678:Genome; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype; D020543:Proteome / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D013045:Species Specificity
D020543:Proteome