BLiSC Animal Care and Resource Center (ACRC) - Useful Links
Link to Internal Resources and Information:
1) ACoMaS - The ACRC Animal Colony Management System & BLiSC repository strain list database.
2) Updated ACRC Mouse and Rat colonies SPF Pathogen Monitoring Results - Listing latest monitoring results of all pathogens routinely monitored and excluded from our high barrier rodent Specific Pathogen Free SPF level 1 & SPF level 2 environments.
3) Clarifications on What is SPF? and how it is important for your research?
Link to external resources and databases:
1) ISTT - International Society for Transgenic Technologies: http://www.transtechsociety.org/
2) The Mouse CRISPR PAGE: http://wwwuser.cnb.csic.es/~montoliu/CRISPR/
3) Breaking Cas : the New guide RNA design interface
Another popular Crispr/Cas guide RNA design tool is: http://crispor.tefor.net/
4) Infrafrontier / European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA): https://www.infrafrontier.eu/
5) CRE-X-MICE database : http://nagy.mshri.on.ca/cre_new/
6) Mouse Phenome Database: http://phenome.jax.org/
7) International Gene Trap Consortium (IGTC): http://www.genetrap.org/
8) International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC): http://www.mousephenotype.org/
9) The Jackson Laboratory: https://www.jax.org/
10) MGI , Mouse Genome Informatics, the international database resource for the laboratory mouse: http://www.informatics.jax.org/
11) JAX quick guide to Mouse Nomenclature & more detailed guidelines
12) EMAP, the e-Mouse project: http://www.emouseatlas.org/emap/home.html
13) CARD / Nakagata Lab Manual for Reproductive Technologies in Mice: http://card.medic.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/card/english/sigen/manual/onlinemanual.html
14) India Bioscience : https://indiabioscience.org/
15) LASA: Laboratory Animal Scientists' Association (India) - http://www.lasaindia.in
16) ARRIVE guidelines = international agreement on items to include in your scientific research paper when publishing work involving the use of laboratory animals-
17) NC3Rs - National Center for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research - tutorials, procedure videos, guidelines on experimental design and statistical power analysis ...
National and International Laboratory Animal Welfare and Ethics guidelines:
The ACRC has established state of the art animal reseach facilities and user training programs following guidelines from both:
1) the Indian Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA):
2) the FELASA, Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations: http://www.felasa.eu/