We have developed a powerful tool for managing transgenic and knockout mouse programs using the Macintosh ®and Microsoft ® Windows ™-compatible relational database management system, 4th Dimension ® (4D).MouseBank is a user-friendly system designed for small laboratories and large workgroups to organize every aspect of the generation and breeding of transgenic animals.MouseBankis built on the client/ server model to handle any arbitrarily large number of researchers and projects.Using MouseBank , each researcher manages his or her own projects from a desktop computer, while the database resides on a fast server.MouseBank has been tested and is currently in use on Macintosh computers.MouseBankoffers two views of the data.The Lab Director View is a traditional table-oriented view of the seven interrelated project data tables: Project, Mating Pair, Litter, DNA Construct, ES Clone, Production Experiment and Mouse.Records in an eighth table, User, are created by the database administrator and are used to enforce password-controlled access to the data
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