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Well-known URI / URL

When mentioning the Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) please use this URL:
http://www.jax.org/phenome
This is our "well-known location" and generally better for citing purposes than the longer dynamic system URLs that appear in your browser address field. Here are some other "well-known" MPD URLs that can be cited:

Recent Mouse Phenome Project publications

Grubb SC, Maddatu TP, Bult CJ, Bogue MA. Mouse phenome database. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D720-30. Epub 2008 Nov 5.     PubMed    MGI

Open access PDF of the above article

Bogue MA, Grubb SC, Maddatu TP, Bult CJ. Mouse Phenome Database (MPD). Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jan;35(Database issue):D643-9. Epub 2006 Dec 6.     PubMed    MGI

Bogue MA, Grubb SC The mouse phenome project. Genetica. 2004 Sep;122:71-74.     PubMed    MGI

Grubb SC, Churchill GA, Bogue MA. A collaborative database of inbred mouse strain characteristics. Bioinformatics. 2004 Nov 1;20(16):2857-9.     PubMed    MGI




Citing specific data in the MPD

To cite specific data in the MPD, a format similar to the following may be used. See also MPD's usage terms and conditions.

Investigators. Project Title. MPD accession#. Mouse Phenome Database Web Site, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.jax.org/phenome, month and year of download ).

Example:
Wahlsten D, Crabbe JC. Comparative study of activity, anxiety, motor learning, and spatial learning in two laboratories. MPD:108. Mouse Phenome Database Web Site, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine USA. World Wide Web (URL: http://www.jax.org/phenome, July 2004).

Each phenotyping project in the MPD is assigned an accession number having the format MPD:NNN, where NNN is an integer. Accession numbers are displayed in the projects index and the individual project detail pages.










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