Archiving and Distribution

 

Keeping live mice on shelf for extended periods is not only costly, it also bears the risk of loosing biologically relevant phenotypes due to genetic drift or disease, and it is not desirble for animal welfare reasons. Mouse repositories therefore preserve scientifically valuable mouse models and distribute them to upon request to the biomedical research community.


EMMA - The European Mouse Mutant Archive is the leading mouse repository in Europe and important partner in the global network of mouse archives. EMMA offers archiving and distribution of mouse models under highest quality standards and access to the strain data in the EMMA resource database. An additional specialized service of EMMA is the generation of germ-free (axenic) mice.


Over the last years the demand for the services of EMMA has seen a steep increase. In the context of the Infrafrontier Project the existing national EMMA nodes will therefore be upgraded, and new national nodes will be integrated into the EMMA network.


The Infrafrontier consortium comprises existing and potential EMMA partners:


Existing Partners:

Potential Partners:


Last revision December 2010