Purpose

The Mouse Phenome Database (MPD; phenome.jax.org) has characterizations of hundreds of strains of laboratory mice to facilitate translational discoveries and to assist in selection of strains for experimental studies.

• BioDBcore overview       • Wikipedia article

Affiliation

We're a grant-funded research effort headquartered at The Jackson Laboratory.

• Contact us       • Staff       • Citing       • Funding       • Publications       • Also at JAX

Data sets

Data sets are voluntarily contributed by researchers from a variety of institutions and settings, or in some cases retrieved by us from open public sources. MPD has three major types of strain-centric data sets: phenotype strain surveys, SNP and variation data, and gene expression strain surveys.

• What's new       • Database stats       • Contribute       • Change log       • Downloads

Mouse strains

MPD collects data on classical inbred strains as well as any fixed-genotype strains and derivatives that are openly acquirable by community investigators (strain panel examples). Strains can be from JAX-Mice or from any other vendor. Investigators looking to test a diverse set of classical strains should consider our MPD priority strain set. We currently don't subsidize or assist with mouse procurement for projects.

• Find a strain       • Strain panels       • All strains       • Priority strain set

Background

• MPD research overview from the Jackson Laboratory web site
• Formative workshop goals and participants (1999)
• Phenotyping recommendations
• Larger initiatives and data-contributing collaborations
• All collaborating investigators
• Phenotype project release history / timeline
• MPD database stats

Reference

• Downloads
• Publications
• Tutorial videos
• Glossary of units terms
• Phenotype missing data codes
• Strain type codings
• Linking to MPD for web developers
• Strain nomenclature changes affecting MPD
• Links to selected other resources