ABSTRACT
Maintenance of records about breeding colonies and associated research is highly specialized and can easily become overwhelming if a systematic and proven method is not utilized (See Chapter 3, Computerized Colony Management). The same is true for medical records on each mouse necropsied, both to organize all data generated and to access various specimens collected and materials stored. Generation of data and case material is useless unless it can be retrieved and analyzed on demand. Computerized databases and spreadsheets provide invaluable tools for maintaining large amounts of data that can easily be processed to generate tables and graphics for summarization, interpretation, and presentation.
