Animal handling - from data storage to order flow and reporting

gritAnimal is our animal handling application supporting the workflow around the vivarium. It not only ensures that all the relevant data about the animals are stored in the same database but also enables an order flow from scientist to animal facility and subsequent return of relevant animal information to the scientist. gritAnimal also support the scientists in performing the required scoring of the animals after use.

Finally the application supports the veterinarians in their work around maintaining and enforcing the licenses received from the authorities and automatically creating the yearly animal use reporting according to the EU rules which can be a very tedious process if handled manually.

The grit42 animal support

Having the animal information in the grit42 platform – and hence in the same place as the in vivo data – makes it very easy to link the individual animals in the experiment to the vendor, strain etc in the animal facility system.

The scientist therefore do not need to merge or import animal informaiton. If they have the relevant animal id’s in their experiment the data will automatically be linked to the corresponding animal information in the system.

License and quota management
Animal ordering with pre-defined (default) parameters
Order handling by animal facility
Print cage cards
Easy, supported scoring according to EU rules
Automatic use report generation

Animals are a crucial part of any in vivo experiment

All the information about the animals is also data that needs to be managed and structured. The different characteristics of the individual animals – like strain, sex and weight – can have an impact on the experiment and are hence important pieces of information to support the in vivo scientists in the interpretation of their experiments.

The information about the animals – and the entire animal order flow from scientist to animal facility – is often handled and later stored in word order forms, excel or even in emails. The scientists therefore need to merge all the information about the animals they receive from the different tools with the scientific results to factor them into their interpretations.

In the words of...

Words of wisdom shared by our esteemed customers, brilliant collaborators, and valued partners.

grit42 has given our project team access to enterprise level software tools for data management, archiving and analysis which are uniquely able to work with discovery, clinical and clinical data sets in an interoperable environment.

They are a great company and we are very proud to collaborate with them to try and improve the process of antibiotic drug discovery through the implementation of FAIR data management and tools.

Philip Gribbon

Head of Discovery Research at Fraunhofer ITMP

Grit42 is providing the IMI ERA4TB project with innovative, flexible data management solutions that greatly facilitate the handling of the variety of complex drug discovery and development datasets needed to support world-class TB research.

Carlos Diaz

Founder & CEO, Synapse Research Management

Based on our experience and the ability to organize all data types in a consistent fashion, this platform can be a key tool for any researcher to address key scientific questions within the areas of drug development and translational research activities.

Patrick O'Meara

Data Team Manager, C-Path

As our research in Nucleic acid-based medicine involves data generation from biological and in silico experiments, both from several different sources, it is of utmost importance that our data consolidation process is streamlined and that the stored data is easily accessible, which is what we get with grit42.

Søren Rasmussen

Director Neuroscience Discovery, Contera Pharma

We see a great potential in applying state-of-the-art data management and data integration to leverage our R&D activities and improve our decision making. To strengthen these capabilities, we selected grit42 as our strategic software partner.

Thorsten Thormann

VP of Research, LEO Pharma

For identification of phenotypes of mutants, we use the high-throughput phenotypic microarrays from OmniLog®. The Growth Curves app from grit42 offers a nice and interactive way to analyse this data as well as making our analysis workflow 15 times faster!

Michael Mourez

Bacterial Infections Group Head at EVOTEC