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? 

6) <Training Request Form>

 

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/