title: Accessing data from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: state of the art and future plans.
abstract: The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) (http://www.mousephenotype.org) will reveal the pleiotropic functions of every gene in the mouse genome and uncover the wider role of genetic loci within diverse biological systems. Comprehensive informatics solutions are vital to ensuring that this vast array of data is captured in a standardised manner and made accessible to the scientific community for interrogation and analysis. Here we review the existing EuroPhenome and WTSI phenotype informatics systems and the IKMC portal, and present plans for extending these systems and lessons learned to the development of a robust IMPC informatics infrastructure.
authors.affiliation: Mammalian Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council Harwell, Harwell, Oxfordshire OX11 0RD, UK. a.mallon@har.mrc.ac.uk
authors.forename: Ann-Marie
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mallon
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Melvin
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Parkinson
authors.forename: Steve D M
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Flicek
authors.forename: William C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Skarnes
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D038622:Internationality; D051379:Mice / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype