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CryoWEB: Web software for the documentation of the cryo-preserved material in animal gene banks |
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Authors |
Zhivko Duchev*, Truong Van Chi Cong, Eildert Groeneveld |
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Affiliation |
Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Hoeltystrasse 10, 31535 Neustadt, Germany |
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Article Type |
Software
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Date |
Received February 8, 2010; Accepted September 27, 2010; Published November 1, 2010 |
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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. |
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Availability
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CryoWEB is publicly available at http://cryoweb.tzv.fal.de |
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Keywords
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CryoWEB, animal gene banks, documentation, Open Source |
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Citation |
Duchev et al. Bioinformation, 5 (5) 219-220, 2010 |
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P. Kangueane
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ISSN |
0973-2063
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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. |