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Laboratory Animal Management Assistant (LAMA): a LIMS for active research colonies |
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| Authors: | Marko Milisavljevic Taryn Hearty Tony Y. T. Wong Elodie Portales-Casamar Elizabeth M. Simpson Wyeth W. Wasserman |
| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics at the Child & Family Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada 2. Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada 3. Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4, Canada |
| Abstract: | Laboratory Animal Management Assistant (LAMA) is an internet-based system for tracking large laboratory mouse colonies. It has a user-friendly interface with powerful search capabilities that ease day-to-day tasks such as tracking breeding cages and weaning litters. LAMA was originally developed to manage hundreds of new mouse strains generated by a large functional genomics program, the Pleiades Promoter Project (http://www.pleiades.org). The software system has proven to be highly flexible, suitable for diverse management approaches to mouse colonies. It allows custom tagging and grouping of animals, simplifying project-specific handling and access to data. Finally, LAMA was developed in close collaboration with mouse technicians to ease the transition from paper- or Excel-based management systems to computerized tracking, allowing data export in a popular spreadsheet format and automatic printing of cage cards. LAMA is an open-access software tool, freely available to the research community at http://launchpad.net/mousedb. |
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