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CryoWEB: Web software for the documentation of the cryo-preserved material in animal gene banks

Authors

Zhivko Duchev*, Truong Van Chi Cong, Eildert Groeneveld

Affiliation

Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Hoeltystrasse 10, 31535 Neustadt, Germany
 

Email

zhivko.duchev@fli.bund.de

Article Type

Software

 

Date

Received February 8, 2010; Accepted September 27, 2010; Published November 1, 2010
 

Abstract

Many countries in the world have set up national domestic conservation programmes and collections of long-term storage of cryo-preserved animal genetic material. We have developed a web based software - CryoWEB for the documentation of such collections. The software is generally applicable to all livestock breeds, independent of the donor's species and the type of preserved material. The software can record basic herd-book information for the donor animal, the structure of the storage facilities, description of the stored samples and their distribution within the gene bank. It also traces the movements of the sample vessels within the storage facilities and the usage of sample units. The outputs implemented in CryoWEB address the informational needs of the gene bank manager in her everyday tasks.
 

Availability

 

CryoWEB is publicly available at http://cryoweb.tzv.fal.de

Keywords

 

CryoWEB, animal gene banks, documentation, Open Source

Citation

Duchev et al. Bioinformation, 5 (5) 219-220, 2010

Edited by

P. Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.