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Asian Mouse Mutagenesis Resource Association (AMMRA): mouse genetics and laboratory animal resources in the Asia Pacific. Mamm Genome 2021; 33:192-202. [PMID: 34482437 PMCID: PMC8418786 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-021-09912-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
The Asian Mouse Mutagenesis Resource Association (AMMRA) is a non-profit organization consisting of major resource and research institutions with rodent expertise from within the Asia Pacific region. For more than a decade, aiming to support biomedical research and stimulate international collaboration, AMMRA has always been a friendly and passionate ally of Asian and Australian member institutions devoted to sharing knowledge, exchanging resources, and promoting biomedical research. AMMRA is also missioned to global connection by working closely with the consortiums such as the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium and the International Mouse Strain Resource. This review discusses the emergence of AMMRA and outlines its many roles and responsibilities in promoting, assisting, enriching research, and ultimately enhancing global life science research quality.
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Masuya H, Usuda D, Nakata H, Yuhara N, Kurihara K, Namiki Y, Iwase S, Takada T, Tanaka N, Suzuki K, Yamagata Y, Kobayashi N, Yoshiki A, Kushida T. Establishment and application of information resource of mutant mice in RIKEN BioResource Research Center. Lab Anim Res 2021; 37:6. [PMID: 33455583 PMCID: PMC7811887 DOI: 10.1186/s42826-020-00068-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Online databases are crucial infrastructures to facilitate the wide effective and efficient use of mouse mutant resources in life sciences. The number and types of mouse resources have been rapidly growing due to the development of genetic modification technology with associated information of genomic sequence and phenotypes. Therefore, data integration technologies to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of mouse strain data becomes essential for mouse strain repositories. In 2020, the RIKEN BioResource Research Center released an integrated database of bioresources including, experimental mouse strains, Arabidopsis thaliana as a laboratory plant, cell lines, microorganisms, and genetic materials using Resource Description Framework-related technologies. The integrated database shows multiple advanced features for the dissemination of bioresource information. The current version of our online catalog of mouse strains which functions as a part of the integrated database of bioresources is available from search bars on the page of the Center (https://brc.riken.jp) and the Experimental Animal Division (https://mus.brc.riken.jp/) websites. The BioResource Research Center also released a genomic variation database of mouse strains established in Japan and Western Europe, MoG+ (https://molossinus.brc.riken.jp/mogplus/), and a database for phenotype-phenotype associations across the mouse phenome using data from the International Mouse Phenotyping Platform. In this review, we describe features of current version of databases related to mouse strain resources in RIKEN BioResource Research Center and discuss future views.
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Affiliation(s)
- Hiroshi Masuya
- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan.
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Experimental Animal Division, BioResource Research Center, RIKEN, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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- Laboratory for Developmental Dynamics, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
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- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan.,Data Knowledge Organization Unit, Head Office for Information Systems and Cybersecurity, RIKEN, Wako, Japan
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- Experimental Animal Division, BioResource Research Center, RIKEN, Tsukuba, Japan
| | - Tatsuya Kushida
- Integrated Bioresource Information Division, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, 3-1-1 Koyadai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-0074, Japan
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