SoftMouse FAQ How To Tips: Mouse Breeding and Colony Management Software Experts

SoftMouse.NET Workflows and Frequently Asked Questions
Follow these common Workflows and FAQs to become an Expert in digital mouse colony management

Get Started

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Getting Started

Import your Historical Colony Data

Free Data Importing Services

Premium Data Importing Service

Backfill your Historical Colony Data

Start from Scratch

Consult with a SoftMouse Representative

Mice

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How To Create New Mice

How to Change the Default Wean, Mature, Tail Tag Ages

How to Deactivate a Mouse Record

Mark Pups As Ended

Cages

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Creating Cages

Move Mice Into NEW Cages

Move Mice Into EXISTING Cages without Filter

Move Mice Into EXISTING Cages with Filter

Add Location and Cage Capacities

Sac A Whole Cage

Breeding Schemas

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How To Create New Matings

Set Up a Harem in ONE Record

Set Up a Harem in TWO Records

Male Rotations...

Retire and Remate the Male

Add an Active Male Breeder to Multiple Matings

Set Up Weanlings in Matings

Track Plug Dates

How to Add a Mouse to a Mating Record

Set Up a Pending Mating

How to Retire a Breeder

How to Disband a Mating

How To End Old Breeders

Litters

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How To Create New Litters

Add a Litter to a deactivated Mating

Enter a Litter with Unknown Size

Add Pups to an Existing Litter

Foster A Litter

Edit the Parents of a Litter

Track Embryonic Litter

Move Mother and Pups to New Cage

Distinguish Between Alive and Ended Pups

Select the Mother of a Litter in a Harem Mating

Tag and ID

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Using Physical Tags

Add Ear Marks With Alt. ID

How to Enable RapId Tag Functionality

How to Scan Mice with RapID Tags

Adding RapId to your Cage Cards

Searching for Multiple Tags and SIDs

Genotype

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Understanding Genotypes in SoftMouse

Ordering your Genes in the Genotype Display

Add Genotypes to Unweaned Pups

Find Mice to be Genotyped

Add Genotype to a Single Mouse

Add Genotypes to Multiple Mice

Edit Genotype of a Single Mouse

Edit Genotypes of Multiple Mice

Filtering By Genotype

SoftMouse.NET Integration with TransnetYX

Prepare your TransnetYX Account

Create a TransnetYX Order

Upload TransnetYX Genotype Results

Update a TransnetYX Order

Search for a TransnetYX Well Plate

Wean

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Tag, Genotype And Wean One Litter At A Time

Tag, Sex, and Genotype Multiple Litters At A Time

Wean Mice Before the Set Wean Date

Wean Litter and Exclude Unneeded Pups

Wean Multiple Litters at a Time

Get a List of Unweaned Pups

Mouselines - Strains

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How To Create New Mouselines

How To Edit Mouselines

How to Add Strains

Cage Cards

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How to Customize Cage Cards

How to Print Multiple Cage Cards Per Sheet

How to Scan the QR Codes on Cage Cards

Where to Print Cage Cards

Configure Cage Cards From Chrome Browser

Configure Cage Cards From Firefox Browser

Configure Cage Cards From Safari Browser

Calendar and Events

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Set Email Reminders for Events

How to Create a Calendar Event

How to Add Records to an Existing Event

How to View All Records in an Event

Protocols

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How to Search for Mice in a Specific Protocol

How to Print Protocol on the Cage Card

How to Add a Protocol to New Mice

How to Add a Protocol to Existing Mice

How to Add, Edit and Delete Protocols

Projects and Experiments

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Projects (Study Manager LIMS) Overview

Create an Experiment

Modify Mice in an Experiment

Find Mice in or not in an Experiment

Add a Mouse Back Into an Experiment

Delete Mice and Remove Mice Explained

Add Time Points at Random

Filter and Report

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How to View a List of all Your Mice

Find Total Mouse Count per Cage Type

Find Total Cage Count per Cage Type

Find Total Pup Count per Mouseline

Find Embryonic Litters

Sticky Filters

Viewing Total Colony Counts

Count How Many Mice Were Born or Weaned

Count How Many Mice Were Ended

Filter for Ended Mice

Filter for Weaned or Ended Litters

Filter for Inactive Mating Pairs

Filter for Inactive Cage Records

Filter for Archived Mouselines

Lineage and History

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The Mouse Record

The Mating Record

The Litter Record

The Cage Record

Find All Pups From One Breeder

How to Search For The Family Tree of a Mouse

Tips and Suggestions

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Upload Files to a Record

Mouse States Explained

Display Cage Tag in the Litter List

"No Change" in Drop Down Lists Explained

View Total Number of Records after Filtering

Add Parents to Existing Mice

What Are SIDs

Account Customization

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Color Coding Mouselines

Customize Drop Down Lists

Customize Table Columns

Customize your Column Order

Set General Preferences

How to Create Mouseline - Strain Associations

How to Create Gene - Allele Associations

How to Create Mouseline - Gene Associations

How to Change the Strain of Multiple Mice at a time

Group Accounts

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Create New Users in a Group

Strategies for Group Accounts

Set up a Decentralized Account (Lab Admin)

Set up a Centralized Account (Lab Admin)

Set Preference to View Centralized Colony Data

Associate an Existing Account to a New User

View Only Account Rights

Sharing and Transfers

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Allow Users to Switch Owners of Records

Allow Other Users to Create Records for You

Share Your Colony Data With Other Users

Transfer Mice Between Owners

How to View Colony Data of Other Users

Undo and Fix Errors

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Reactivate Ended Mice

Change a Mating's Set Up Date

Edit the Date Mated of Breeders

Switch Incorrect Breeders and Litter Parents

Enter Litter DOB Before Current Date

How to Reactivate a Disbanded Mating

Undo a Wean

Account and Security Tips

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Browser Compatibility

How to Clear Cache on Browsers

I Forgot My Password

How to Change your Password

What Does Inactive User Mean

Why Would A SoftMouse Account Access Be Deactivated

How to Reactivate My SoftMouse FREE Account Access

How Do I Know if My SoftMouse Account Access Has Been Deactivated

Do you keep a backup of our SoftMouse data

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Security Hygiene Tips

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