Database Access

• Non-java, indented-text anatomy - search using the search options on your browser.
• Prototype XML - download the XML with a prototype DTD - not yet standard.
• Notes on the development and philosophy of the standardised nomenclature.
• Staging Criteria - extended staging criteria for mouse development.

Description

Our aim is to build a generally accepted nomenclature for the components of the mouse embryo, at successive stages from fertilization to adult. The purpose of this nomenclature is to provide a standardized vocabulary that will be a framework for describing patterns of gene expression and other processes occurring during normal and abberant development. This standard nomenclature will be used within the Mouse Gene-Expression Information Resource (MGEIR) and as part of the Edinburgh Mouse Atlas. The nomenclature has been implemented as an Object-Oriented Database (using ObjectStore) and as well as the names for all tissues this will include synonyms, groups, lineage (as far as it is known) and supplementary and reference information. More details on the development and philosophy of the standardised nomenclature are available and also detail the contributors to the nomenclature database.

The links above provide access to the database in two formats: an interactive tree using JavaWebStart or for browsers with Java plugin 1.3.0 and above, a structured list for browsers with no Java Plugin and as an XML formatted file.

All tissues up to Theiler Stage 24 (see staging criteria) are provided. This will be extended to adult in future versions. The database is copyright to the Medical Research Council (UK) and the University of Edinburgh (UK). All rights to the structured lists within this database are reserved and the datalists may not be reproduced without permission from the database curator (Prof. Jonathan Bard). Permission for copying the data will be granted on request for bona fide non-commercial research purposes. In particular developers of similar nomenclatures for other species are welcome to use this data and the Edinburgh group will be pleased to assist that effort.

Feedback. Please send feedback/queries to the curator: Prof. Jonathan Bard.

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