Table 1 Useful websites

Ensembl mouse genome server

http://www.ensembl.org/Mus_musculus/

NCBI mouse genome resource

http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/genome/guide/mouse/

UCSC mouse genome browser gateway

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgGateway?org=mouse

Gene expression databases

Mouse Genome Informatics - gene expression

http://www.informatics.jax.org/menus/expression_menu.shtml

Edinburgh Mouse Atlas Project (emap)

http://genex.hgu.mrc.ac.uk

Gene-trap databases

German GeneTrap Consortium

http://www.genetrap.de

Mammalian Functional Genomics Centre

http://www.escells.ca

Bay Genomics gene trap resource

http://baygenomics.ucsf.edu/

Centre for Modeling Human Diseases (CHMD) - gene trap core

http://www.cmhd.ca/sub/genetrap.asp

SNP resources

SNPview

http://www.GNF.org/SNP

Whitehead Institute mouse SNP data

http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/snp/mouse

Roche mouse SNP database

http://mouseSNP.roche.com

The RIKEN FANTOM2 cDNA resource

http://fantom2.gsc.riken.go.jp/