Interpreting a Strain Summary
Interpreting a Strain Summary
This Help document answers the following questions about the strain summary:
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At the top of the Strains Summary report, to the left, your query parameters are stated. To the right, the number of strains found, and displayed on the first page of results, is indicated. Below this section, the results are displayed in a table:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Official Strain Name | The official name for the strain uses nomenclature approved by the International Committee on Standardized Genetic Nomenclature for Mice. |
| Synonyms | Abbreviations and common and unofficial names |
| Attributes | Features attributed to the strain. These describe the type of strain (e.g., inbred, congenic, consomic, F1 hybrid), more general features of the strain (e.g., wild-derived, mutant), and categories associated with its alleles (e.g., transgenic, chemically induced mutation, spontaneous mutation, deletion). A strain may have multiple attributes. All the attributes are defined here. |
| IDs | The MGI strain ID as well as repository and Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) IDs. |
| References | All the references for the strain, linked to a listing on the summary report page. |
***You can filter results by Attribute. In the banner above your results, after Filter strains by:, click the desired box. This will reduce your results to only those containing the checked items.
Above the table of your search results, click on the Text File or Excel File icon. Your web browser will download a file of the results that remain after any filtering you may have performed.