**International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)**

The IMSR is a searchable online database of mouse strains and stocks
available worldwide, including inbred, mutant, and genetically
engineered mice. The goal of the IMSR is to assist the international
scientific community in locating and obtaining mouse resources. **This
resource now provides information about the availability of mice for 16
different institutions, consortiums and/or individual investigators. 
The 5 listed in the synopsis are only the 5 that the updated IMSR went
live with in July of 2004.  For more information about the IMSR, the
primary contact is Dr. Janan Eppig at the Jackson Laboratory.  The full
list of data providers to the IMSR can be found at the following URL:
<http://www.informatics.jax.org/imsr/fetch?page=imsrStrainRepositories>**

**MMHCC Repository**

The Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium (MMHCC) Repository is an
NCI-funded resource for mouse cancer models and associated strains. The
repository makes strains available to all members of the scientific
community. Up to 3 breeder pairs of each available strain may be
ordered. On occasion larger numbers of breeder pairs may be available -
inquire. All strains will be kept as live animals for a period of 6
months after which time their distribution level will be evaluated.
Those strains that receive little or no interest will be removed from
the shelf, but will be available for recovery from frozen stocks.
Distribution evaluation will continue on a six-month basis for those
strains kept as live animals.

[[http://mouse.ncifcrf.gov/]{.underline}](http://mouse.ncifcrf.gov/)

**Jackson Lab**

JAX^®^ Mice are the world\'s best characterized and most widely
published strains, and include the only available sequenced mice. By
choosing JAX^®^ Mice, you access a wealth of mouse genetic, phenotypic,
and disease informatics resources. All JAX^®^ Mice are maintained under
rigorous genetic quality and animal health programs, and our JAX^®^
Ready Strains^TM^, including C57BL/6J, are readily available in the
quantities you need.

[[http://jaxmice.jax.org/index.html]{.underline}](http://jaxmice.jax.org/index.html)

**Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers**

A repository of mouse stocks and ES cell line collections serving the
world-wide genetics and biomedical research community for the benefit of
human health.

[[http://www.mmrrc.org/]{.underline}](http://www.mmrrc.org/)

**The European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA)**

is a non-profit repository for the collection, archiving (via
cryopreservation) and distribution of relevant mutant strains essential
for basic biomedical research. The laboratory mouse is the most
important mammalian model for studying genetic and multi-factorial
diseases in man. Thus the work of EMMA will play a crucial role in
exploiting the tremendous potential benefits to human health presented
by the current research in mammalian genetics.

[[http://www.emma.rm.cnr.it/]{.underline}](http://www.emma.rm.cnr.it/)

**Commercial Providers**

Taconic (available strains sorted by name)

[[http://www.taconic.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=893]{.underline}](http://www.taconic.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=893)

Harlan (available strains in US)

[[http://www.harlan.com/models/usmodels.asp]{.underline}](http://www.harlan.com/models/usmodels.asp)

Charles Rivers Laboratories

[[http://www.criver.com/research_models_and_services/]{.underline}](http://www.criver.com/research_models_and_services/)

**Listing of mouse imaging websites including names and emails of
contact persons**

[[http://www.loni.ucla.edu/MAP/Research/RelatedSites.html]{.underline}](http://www.loni.ucla.edu/MAP/Research/RelatedSites.html)

**Pathbase (http://www.eulep.org/Pathbase/index.php)**

Pathbase is a database of histopathology photomicrographs and
macroscopic images derived from mutant or genetically manipulated mice.
Images can be retrieved by searching for specific lesions or class of
lesion, by genetic locus, or by a wide set of parameters shown on the
Advanced Search Interface. Lesions are described according to the
Pathbase pathology ontology developed by the [[Pathbase European
Consortium]{.underline}](http://www.eulep.org/Pathbase/What_is_Pathbase/index.php),
and available
[[here]{.underline}](http://eulep.anat.cam.ac.uk/Pathology_Ontology/index.php)
or on the [[Gene Ontology Consortium
site]{.underline}](http://www.geneontology.org/) -
[[OBO]{.underline}](http://www.geneontology.org/doc/gobo.html). Pathbase
is funded under the European Commission\'s Fifth framework programme
(QLRI-1999-00320) and it is free for everyone\'s use. As this is a
community resource, we would like to encourage everyone to upload their
own images, contribute comments to images and send us their feedback.

**The Visible Mouse at the University of California Davis**

[[http://tvmouse.compmed.ucdavis.edu/]{.underline}](http://tvmouse.compmed.ucdavis.edu/)

I like the use of the Zoomify viewer on the Pathology  Image Archive
page

Hi there,

Just FYI for the group, the Mouse Tumor Biology Database (MTB) holds
\>1,300 images (mostly histopathology images) from mice. We have
recently begun to utilize the Zoomify tool as well.

[[http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do]{.underline}](http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do)

Thanks,

Debbie

[[http://neuroimage.usc.edu/Digimouse.html]{.underline}](http://neuroimage.usc.edu/Digimouse.html)

The above site contains the digimouse atlas that we created at the Crump
Institute at UCLA. Together with Richard Leahy\'s group at USC, we
created an online version of the paper we recently submitted. This data
is useful for showing how the same mouse looks in PET, CT and
cryosections. Helps people learn teh anatomy viewed through the
different systems.

The mouse was imaged in microPET with a combination of F- and FDG, in
microCT and cryosectioned at 50 micron slices. Fiducial markers were
included and the mouse was as close to the same position for all 3
modalities. I defined as many organs as possible to help in the 3D
rendering. This is also part of the Kinteic Imaging System (KIS) site,
where you can simluate and model kinetics for PET tracers
\[[[http://dragon.nuc.ucla.edu/kis/]{.underline}](http://dragon.nuc.ucla.edu/kis/)\].

David Stout