The mouse genome

Table 1.

Some useful Web sites


Web site description

Web address
Mouse genome database MGDa http://www.informatics.jax.org/
Mouse genome sequence browsers
   Ensembl mouse genome server http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/
   NCBI mouse genome resource http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/genome/guide/mouse/
   UCSC mouse genome browser gateway http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?org=mouse
Gene expression databases
   Mouse Genome Informatics—gene expression http://www.informatics.jax.org/menus/expression_menu.shtml
   Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (emap) http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk
The RIKEN FANTOM2 cDNA resource http://fantom2.gsc.riken.go.jp/
ENU mutagenesis programs
   Baylor College http://www.mouse-genome.bcm.tmc.edu/ENU/ENUHome.asp
   German ENU Mouse Mutagenesis Screen Project http://www.gsf.de/isg/groups/enu-mouse.html
   MRC Harwell http://www.mut.har.mrc.ac.uk/
   The Jackson Laboratory (neurological mutations) http://www.jax.org/nmf/
   The Jackson Laboratory (heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders) http://pga.jax.org/
   Mouse Mutagenesis Program Core Facility http://mmp.sinica.edu.tw/mmp/english/
   McLaughlin Research Institute http://www.montana.edu/wwwmri/index.html
   Northwestern University http://www.genome.northwestern.edu/
   The RIKEN Institute http://www.gsc.riken.go.jp/Mouse/main.htm
   Tennessee Mouse Genome Consortium http://www.tnmouse.org/
   The Toronto Centre for Modeling Human Disease http://www.cmhd.ca/
Gene-trap databases
   Bay Genomics gene trap resource http://baygenomics.ucsf.edu/
   Centre for Modeling Human Diseases gene trap core http://www.cmhd.ca/genetrap/index.html
   Frontier in BioSciences http://www.bioscience.org/knockout/knochome.htm
   German GeneTrap Consortium http://www.genetrap.de
   The Jackson Laboratory (Induced Mutant Resource) http://www.jax.org/imr/index.html
   Lexicon Genetics http://omnibank.lexgen.com/blast_frame.htm
   Mammalian Functional Genomics Centre http://www.escells.ca
SNP resources
   SNPview http://snp.gnf.org/
   Whitehead Institute mouse SNP data http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/snp/mouse
   Roche mouse SNP database http://mouseSNP.roche.com
Phenotyping resources
   Cornell University Phenotyping Core Facility http://www.med.cornell.edu/research/cores/gem/
   EUMORPHIA http://www.eumorphia.org/
   Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center http://www.mmpc.org/index.htm
   The Jackson Laboratory phenotyping service http://jaxmice.jax.org/services/phenotyping.html
   Monterotondo Phenotyping Service http://www.db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsMR/g_271.html
   Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics http://www.phenogenomics.ca/services/phenotyping.html
   The Mouse Phenome Database
http://aretha.jax.org/pub-cgi/phenome/mpdcgi?rtn=docs/home
  • a Bult et al. (2004), Hill et al. (2004), and Eppig et al. (2005) are helpful for browsing the Mouse Genome Databases efficiently

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  1. Genome Res. 15: 1729-1740

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