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Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on October 23, 2009
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkp867
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© The Author(s) 2009. Published by Oxford University Press.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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MouseBook: an integrated portal of mouse resources

Andrew Blake, Karen Pickford, Simon Greenaway, Steve Thomas, Amanda Pickard, Christine M. Williamson, Niels C. Adams, Alison Walling, Tim Beck, Martin Fray, Jo Peters, Tom Weaver, Steve D. M. Brown, John M. Hancock and Ann-Marie Mallon*

MRC Harwell, Mammalian Genetics Unit and the Mary Lyon Centre, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RD, UK

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +44 01235 525278; Fax: +44 01235 841210; Email: a.mallon{at}har.mrc.ac.uk

Received August 14, 2009. Accepted September 28, 2009.

The MouseBook (http://www.mousebook.org) databases and web portal provide access to information about mutant mouse lines held as live or cryopreserved stocks at MRC Harwell. The MouseBook portal integrates curated information from the MRC Harwell stock resource, and other Harwell databases, with information from external data resources to provide value-added information above and beyond what is available through other routes such as International Mouse Stain Resource (IMSR). MouseBook can be searched either using an intuitive Google style free text search or using the Mammalian Phenotype (MP) ontology tree structure. Text searches can be on gene, allele, strain identifier (e.g. MGI ID) or phenotype term and are assisted by automatic recognition of term types and autocompletion of gene and allele names covered by the database. Results are returned in a tabbed format providing categorized results identified from each of the catalogs in MouseBook. Individual result lines from each catalog include information on gene, allele, chromosomal location and phenotype, and provide a simple click-through link to further information as well as ordering the strain. The infrastructure underlying MouseBook has been designed to be extensible, allowing additional data sources to be added and enabling other sites to make their data directly available through MouseBook.


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