The IMSR is a multi-institutional international collaboration supporting the use of the mouse as a model system for studying human biology and disease. The primary goal of the IMSR is to provide a searchable database, via the WWW, that will assist the international research community in finding the mouse resources they need.

The IMSR began with an initial collaboration between the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) group at The Jackson Laboratory and the Medical Research Council Mammalian Genetics Unit at Harwell. Additional institutions and collaborators are now contributing mouse resource information to the IMSR (see below).

The data content found in the IMSR is as it was supplied by data provider sites.

Contacting IMSR

Questions and comments about the IMSR are welcome. Please email us at imsr@jax.org.

Citing the IMSR

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Strivens M, Eppig JT. 2004. Visualizing the laboratory mouse: capturing phenotypic information. Genetica 122: 89-97. PubMed