Genotrack: A comprehensive, cross-platform database solution for animal tracking, breeding, research, management and reporting.

Designed in close consultation with animal facilities and research institutions, Genotrack utilises the latest technologies to provide a customisable, flexible solution for your animal management and reporting requirements.

Genotrack handles breeding and colony management, genotype and phenotype tracking through experimentation and analysis to reporting and compliance. Our generic, scalable approach means we can cater for animals of various sizes and species, to help you implement a standarised approach to Strain, Colony, Mating, Litter and Animal management. Integrated barcode support improves the speed and accuracy of your data recording and workflows, while our new researcher module puts your scientists in control of their animals.

We help you keep track of the details so you can focus on your animals.

Benefits

• Streamlined workflows – Centralise your information, communication and documentation. More efficient recording and less redundancy means more time for your animals.
• Better accuracy – Customisable default values, data validation and integrity checking helps ensure your data is right the first time, so you spend less time “cleaning up” your data for reporting.
• Reporting – Real time reporting and statistics calculated from your data means less time spent compiling, creating and distributing reports. More detailed, accurate and accessible reporting leads to better information transfer to researchers, ethics committees and regulatory bodies, which potentially helps you to reduce the number of animals used.
• Flexible – Genotrack works alongside your existing systems. Setup and personalise the system to suit your facility and your workflows. We don’t try to replace or duplicate your existing tools and workflows, but to work with them (and you!) to make your life easier.
• Secure – Configurable individual and group based access controls give you control over who sees what. Automated data backup means no more single point of failure for your critical data in a paperbased system. We will work with your IT team to ensure your data is backed up, so you’re protected..
• Supported – Need a new report? Let us know. If Genotrack doesn’t do something you need, tell us – we love a challenge! We work with you to enhance and adapt the system to meet your needs.

Features

• Strain Management – Record species, names, references, pseudonyms, types, alleles, phenotypes, GM Status, background, characteristics, construction, maintenance information, screening protocols, literature references, distribution and crossing restrictions and more.
• Colony Management - Track all the relevant contacts and data associated with a colony. Set default values to aid compliance and save time when adding animals to a colony. Specify default genotypes for homozygous colonies. Define the criteria used to determine breeder and weaning selection. Set the age at which animals need to be genotyped, weaned or reviewed, then automatically generate daily task lists based on these criteria. Approval tracking for production methods and management information ensures that you’re working with the most up-to-date parameters and protocols.
• Detailed animal recording – Record details of procedures and events, observations, genotypes, phenotypes, score sheets, care reports, analysis, notes and more. Multiple reference and naming fields allow cross-referencing between systems. Link photos, movies, results or other documents to animals. These factors and more combine automatically to create a detailed history of every individual animal.
• Genotyping & Phenotyping – Set and enforce your own standards for genotype and phenotype expression based on strain or line. Specify defaults for simpler, faster and more accurate typing.
• Care Reports and Adverse Events – Create care reports for adverse events, experimental protocols or treatments. Automatically notify your nominated vet or other contact of “high risk” events.
• Scoring – Create your own signs and combine them into score sheets for a simple, flexible and powerful way of monitoring the treatment or welfare of an animal.
• Task Management – Assign tasks and track progress on the tasks you’ve requested. Get automatic email notification on task completion to make sure you’re in the loop.
• Project Management – Record project information, researcher information, and approved animal totals by strain, sex and age. Real-time reporting on animal use means you and your researchers know how many of the approved animals have been used, and how many remain available.
• SOPs – Link your SOPs to colonies or projects, allowing staff to quickly check approved procedures.
• Mating management – Built-in support for various mating types and protocols. Participants are tracked as they’re rotated through the mating. Label matings with your own identifiers, and litters from those matings are labeled automatically for easier referencing.
• Litter tracking – Record birth and weaning details. Track deaths, discards, culls and animals used prior to weaning. Automatically create linked individual offspring records for surviving animals.
• Generation Numbers – calculated automatically based on the parents and type of mating.
• Animal Numbers – number animals sequentially within a colony or within a labeled generation.
• Detailed stocktake and census reports – Know how many animals you have, where they are and what they’re doing. Optimise production and reduce animal use through better tracking of stock levels and production rates for breeding animals and colonies.
• Cost Recovery – Record agistment, procedural, medical and transport expenses at the animal or procedure levels to help generate price-per-animal or price-per-box costings.
• Cost centre support – Enter and assign your cost codes and sub-codes to aid integration with your central billing and/or accounting systems.
• Customisable Locations and Housing – Genotrack’s virtual location structure lets represent your facility structure using your building/floor/room/rack names for complete and flexible control over where animals are can be housed.
• Automated Housing – Location can be automatically recorded when matings are setup, when litters are recorded and when weaned, or when animals are imported.
• Compliance – Generate detailed reports and returns for ethics committees or other regulatory bodies.
• OGTR Dealings – Track your dealings with the OGTR. Associate dealings with a project then link dealings to animals based on which project the animals are on.
• Barcoding – Print cards with barcodes and biohazard symbols (if applicable) without the need for a special barcode printer. Scan the barcode on the card to jump straight to the animal, mating, litter or housing unit you’re working with.

G2 Coming soon...

The next generation release of Genotrack will include some of the most requested features from our users:

• Researcher View – A dedicated view for your research staff. Group experimental animals by project and allocation, rather than colony or breeding group. Assign animals to cohort groups within a project. Researchers can have full access to their animals, and can record culls, genotypes, ethics, procedural and general information without impacting other animals, even in shared colonies.
• Drag-and-Drop housing – Relocate boxes and/or animals by dragging between locations in our new virtual housing layouts.
• Web-based – access the software anywhere, anytime. No more installation issues.
• iPad and Tablet version – access the most commonly used features on tablet for convenience and mobility within your facility
• User customizable layouts – switch grid columns on or off so you see what you want to see.

More features are being added all the time - if there's a feature you'd like to see included in the product, please contact us.

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