SCI-Base: an open-source spinal cord injury animal experimentation database.
To capture all pertinent data during spinal cord injury animal experimentation, the authors have designed and implemented a database that is available for use under a public license. Their goals were to record all daily medical care of paraplegic animals, including unexpected complications; to store all injury parameters and/or therapeutic procedures; to track locomotor scores and other measures of functional recovery; to allow planning and management of experiments; and to serve as an externally linkable, SQL-queryable data mining source. Ultimately, the use of databases such as this will allow multiple neurotrauma laboratories to compare animal data through web meta-analysis.
Weeks
Jeffrey
J
W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Hart
Ronald P
RP
D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary*