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Published in final edited form as: Mamm Genome. 2012 Sep 4;23(0):559–571. doi: 10.1007/s00335-012-9420-4

Table 1.

Major mouse repositories and related resources with Universal Resource Locators (URLs).

Repository/Resource URL
Australasia Repositories & Resources
Asian Mouse Mutagenesis and Resource Association (AMMRA) http://www.ammra.info/
    Some members are repositories while others are research institutes:
        Bio-evaluation Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, Koreav
        Biological Resource Centre, Singapore
        Center for Animal Resources and Development, Kumamoto University, Japan
        Institute of Developmental Biology and Molecular Medicine of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
        Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, CAMS&PUMC, Beijing, China
        Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
        Laboratory of Cardiovascular Genomics of Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
        Nanfang Center for Model Organisms, Shanghai, China
        National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation, Seoul, Korea
        National Laboratory Animal Center, Taipei, Taiwan
        National Resource Center of Mutant Mice, Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
        RIKEN BioResource Center, Japan
        Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
        Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences), Shanghai, China
Australian Phenomebank http://pb.apf.edu.au/resources/mouse/sigtr/
Australian Phenomics Network http://www.australianphenomics.org.au/
Bio-evaluation Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, Korea http://www.kribb.re.kr/eng/sub02/sub02_04_06.jsp
Biological Resource Centre, Singapore http://www.brc.a-star.edu.sg/
Center for Animal Resources and Development, Kumamoto University, Japan http://cardb.cc.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/transgenic/index.jsp
Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, CAMS&PUMC, Beijing, China http://www.cnilas.org/html/en/
National Institute of Genetics Mammalian Genetics Laboratory, Japan http://www.nig.ac.jp/english/index.html
National Laboratory Animal Center, Taipei, Taiwan http://www.narl.org.tw/en/tech/company/?company_id=5
National Resource Center of Mutant Mice, Model Animal Research Center of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China http://www.en.nicemice.cn/default.asp
RIKEN BioResource Center, Japan http://www.brc.riken.jp/lab/animal/en/
Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, China http://www.sibs.ac.cn/en/
European Repositories & Resources
European Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis (EUCOMM) programme http://www.eucomm.org
European Mouse Mutant Archive (EMMA) http://www.emmanet.org
    The EMMA website is the single EMMA user interface for all the EMMA partners
       B.S.R.C. "Alexander Fleming", Varkiza (Athens), Greece
       Biocenter, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
       BIOCEV-Institute of Molecular Genetics (IMG), Prague, Czech Republic
       Biomodels Austria (BIAT), Vienna, Austria
       Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Transgénèse et Archivage d’Animaux Modèles (CNRS-TAAM), Orleans, France
       Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientificas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
       Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, (CNR), Monterotondo, Italy
       European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK
       Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
       Genome Research Limited, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI), Hinxton, UK
       GIE-Centre Européen de Recherche en Biologie et en Médecine, Institut Clinique de la Souris (GIE-CERBM-ICS), Illkirch-Strasbourg, France
       Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Experimental Genetics (HMGU-IEG), Munich, Germany
       Karolinska Institutet, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (KI-CMB), Stockholm, Sweden
       Medical Research Council, Mammalian Genetics Unit (MRC-MGU), Harwell, UK
European Mutant Mouse Cell Repository http://www.eummr.org/
Sanger Institute Gene Trap Resource http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/mouse/sigtr/
Global Information Resources
American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) http://www.aalas.org
Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC) http://www.aaalac.org/
International Council for Laboratory Animal Science (ICLAS) http://www.iclas.org/
International Gene Trap Consortium http://www.genetrap.org
International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) http://www.knockoutmouse.org/
International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) http://www.mousephenotype.org/
International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR) http://www.findmice.org/
Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) http://www.informatics.jax.org/
North American Repositories & Resources
Allen Institute for Brain Science (AIBS) http://www.alleninstitute.org/
American Type Culture Collection http://www.atcc.org/
Canadian Mouse Consortium (CMC) http://www.mousecanada.ca/
    The CMC has Regional Resource Centers in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Reseau de Recherche en Transgenese du
    Quebec, Montreal and Halifax, which are all linked to the CMC web site.
Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository (CMMR), Toronto, Canada http://www.cmmr.ca/
Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), Oakland, California, USA http://bacpac.chori.org/home.htm
Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas (GENSAT) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gensat
Genetic Resource Science at JAX (GRS) http://www.jax.org/grs/index.html
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), Bar Harbor, Maine, USA http://www.jax.org
Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP) Repository, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA http://www.komp.org
KOMP Data Coordination Center (KOMP-DCC) http://www.komp.org/index.php?link=4
The Mouse Biology Program http://www.mousebiology.org
The Mouse Brain Library http://www.mbl.org/
Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium Mouse Repository (MMHCC), National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA http://mouse.ncifcrf.gov/
Mutagenetix, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Texas, USA http://mutagenetix.utsouthwestern.edu/
Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers (MMRRC) http://www.mmrrc.org
    The MMRRC is a U.S. consortium comprised of four archive/distribution centers and an informatics center:
    MMRRC-JAX, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
    MMRRC-MU, University of Missouri, MO
    MMRRC-UNC, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
    MMRRC-UCD, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
    MMRRC-ICSC, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
Neuromice Consortium (information source) http://www.neuromice.org/
NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research http://neuroscienceblueprint.nih.gov/
NIH Deltagen-Lexicon KO mice http://www.mmrrc.org/about/Deltagen-Lexicon_links.php
North American Conditional Mouse Mutagenesis (NorCOMM) project http://www.norcomm.org
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Collection (at JAX) http://research.jax.org/grs/oak-ridge.html
Texas A & M Institute of Genomic Medicine (TIGM) http://www.tigm.org