The MyMouseHouse™ project was developed as a component of the Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium (MMHCC) grant to Dr. Norman Greenberg, currently a Full Member of the Clinical Research Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seatttle and a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Washington.
The intent was to create a relational database management system (RDMS) to give basic and clinical investigators working with Genetically Engineered Mouse (GEM) models a robust yet simple tool that would help them manage their colonies efficiently and cost-effectively and facilitate reagent and data sharing.
Dr. Greenberg began working with GEM models in the late 80's during his postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Jeffrey M. Rosen at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. It was at this time that Dr. Greenberg developed a transgenic mouse model of spontaneous autochthonous prostate cancer, affectionately know around the world as the TRansgenic Adenocarcinoma of the Mouse Prostate, or "TRAMP" model (US Patent 5,907,078).
Dr. Greenberg has used his experience with GEM models to guide the development of MyMouseHouse™ and his lab uses this application every day to manage a very large and complex colony.
MyMouseHouse™ runs as a Mac front-end "client" written in cocoa and with a MySQl database "back-end" and is in a beta-test deployment. Clients for other platforms (Vista, Linux, Java) are under development. We are eager to share our technology with the scientific community under a software licensing agreement.
We look forward to developing and expanding the capabilities and utility of this application. If you are interested in being a test user, please visit our Registration page.