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Workflows
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Follow these common Workflows and FAQs to become an Expert in digital mouse colony management
Get Started
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
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
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
How to End a Whole Cage
Add Location and Cage Capacities
Breeding Schemas
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
Add a Pregnant Female
Litters
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
Tag and ID
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Using Physical Tags
Add Ear Marks With Alt. ID
Physical Tag Automation
Searching for Multiple Tags and SIDs
How to Enable RapID Tag Functionality
How to Scan Mice with RapID Tags
Adding RapID to your Cage Cards
Genotype
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
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
Mouselines - Strains
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How To Create New Mouselines
How To Edit Mouselines
How to Add Strains
Cage Cards
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
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
Lineage and History
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
Add Parents to Existing Mice
Projects and Experiments
Projects and Experiments
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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
Protocols
Protocols
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Create a New Protocol
Automate Protocol Assignment
Manually Assign Protocols to Mice
Track No. of Animals Used
How Key Contacts Work
Print Protocol on the Cage Card
Search for Mice in a Specific Protocol
Archive and Restore a Protocol
Delete a Past Protocol
Attach a File to a Protocol
Add an Amendment
Allow other users to Set Protocol Permissions for the Group
Allow Users to Create Protocols
Allow Users to Edit or View Protocols
Allow Users to Assign Protocols to Mice or Cages
View a Protocol Without Edit Permission
Requests
Requests
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Create a Request with Colony Records
Create a Simple Request (no Colony Records)
Mark a Request as Done
Edit a Request
Who Can See Created Requests
How to View Completed Requests
Per Diems
Per Diems
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Set up Per Diem Rates
Assign a Per Diem to a Cage
Visualize Colony Costs
Export Colony Costs for Billing Purposes
Filter and Report
Filter and Report
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Quick Filter
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 Cage Records
Filter for Archived Mouselines
Filter for Inactive Mating Pairs
Tips and Suggestions
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
Archive Customizable Values
What Are SIDs
New Features Version 4 3 0
Account Customization
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
Undo and Fix Errors