What is the UKMRTB?
The University of Kentucky Mouse & Rat Tissue Bank (UKMRTB) is a web based tissue bank developed by the collaboratory work of CheMyong Jay Ko, PhD and Sujin Kim, PhD which supports to inventory, annotate, search, and dispense mouse specimen and related information from a geographically dispersed repository. The system allows user to apply the letter of intent (LOI) and track their order status of specimen request online. The primary purpose of the system was designed to support the University of Kentucky researchers who use mice as their experimental models.