UCLA DLAM BCS & Transnetyx Colony + AMI

UCLA DLAM has chosen to partner with Transnetyx to provide you with tools and resources to assist DLAM Breeding Colony Services (BCS) manage your colonies effectively and responsibly in keeping with the 3R’s of research.

Transnetyx’s cloud-based colony management software, aptly named Colony, is used to manage your mouse records, genotype information, breeding and litter records, and inventory of your mouse lines for colonies managed by DLAM BCS. As part of DLAM’s commitment to resource efficiency, all labs currently supported by DLAM BCS can benefit from the powerful tools and features found in Colony+AMI (Artificial Mouse Intelligence), allowing you to identify ways to reduce waste from unnecessary breeding, low density cages, or excess stock cages and increase your research output, decrease your costs, or both!

We have provided you with the tools that will allow you to track these inefficiencies in real time and encourage you to promptly take action. If you have any UCLA DLAM BCS procedural questions, please reach out to DLAMBCS@mednet.ucla.edu. If you have any Colony+AMI related questions or training requests, please reach out to colony@transnetyx.com. For any other Transnetyx questions, please reach out to your local Transnetyx representative Amy Steinbacher at asteinbacher@transnetyx.com.

3. When action is needed, submit request appropriately (batch requests whenever possible:

i. All breeding and Cull requests must be submitted through Colony AMI using the Request Task feature.

ii. All other requests are emailed to DLAMBCS@mednet.ucla.edu with sufficient detail about the cages, mice, and requested action for BCS staff to clearly identify and complete the request. PI Request Forms are no longer accepted.

Our lab regularly checks for excess cages on a weekly basis and the AMI evaluation function has been especially useful to identify these cages as well as older breeding cages including those with long breaks between litters.

AMI has been an extremely valuable resource that has helped me to assess which breeders are still viable and which have aged out and need to be culled. This allows for the possibility of more productive breeding pairs in regards to project timelines. The user friendly software makes it easier to submit request forms to DLAM.

One of the pain points of using the request form is that I have to manually identify the mice or cages that need to be culled due to old age or lack of space and type it onto the request form. It was great to see how AMI automatically assessed my colonies with a few clicks to establish the filters to find mice that could be removed from the colony.

Artificial Mouse Intelligence

More science in every cage.

Manage your colony more efficiently with less effort. Based on your research goals and resources, AMI will:

Guide you to a more efficient cage footprint
Reduce the number of animals housed over the course of your project
Optimize your production of viable experimental subjects

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Transnetyx Colony Feature Guide

The Transnetyx Colony Feature Guide includes text, interactive elements, and video. To get started, take a quick look through the guide to get an overall sense of Transnetyx Colony. In the end, it will save you a lot of time, and you will be up and running before you know it.

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Transnetyx Support Hub

AMI – Learn how Colony+AMI (Artificial Mouse Intelligence) can transform your lab’s productivity, efficiency, and accuracy through breeder alerts, pedigree draw tool, colony evaluation and cage consolidation suggestions, and a robust project planning tool

Mice– Learn how to view and sort your mouse records quickly and efficiency and how to leverage Colony+AMI’s sophisticated and customizable data tables for your analysis and reporting needs.

Genotyping – See how Transnetyx’s Automated Genotyping service seamlessly integrates with Colony+AMI to make placing orders, reviewing results, and assigning genotypes quick and easy while eliminating recording errors.

Breedings – Learn how to request breedings, view active and retired breeding records, and how to use Colony for tracking times matings and embryo harvests.

Edwin Murenzi

Colony AMI Software Sales Manager | Transnetyx

Phone: 401.855.5940

Email: emurenzi@transnetyx.com

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Amy Steinbacher

Local Regional Sales Manager | Transnetyx

Phone: 310.880.1388

Email: asteinbacher@transnetyx.com

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About Transnetyx

Transnetyx has performed genotyping on more than 40 million samples over the last 20 years. Their industry-leading, fully-automated robotic genotyping processes are used by thousands of academic labs worldwide as well as by major breeders.

The Transnetyx Colony software has been designed to provide better breeding insights that ensure optimal productivity of your colonies. Recent studies have shown that changes to these fundamental lab colony management practices increased staff productivity, reduced overall cage count, provided a more robust pool of animals to fit specific study needs, and decreased time to advance studies to future stages.

We are excited about the potential that this expanded partnership holds for facilitating even more scientific discoveries while continuing to enhance animal care at UCLA. We ask for your support and participation utilizing these tools to help us further evaluate how we can best support your research and collaborate as good stewards of resources at UCLA.

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