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Animal Management - Done Right

Streamline compliance, simplify colony tracking, and empower research teams — all in one platform.

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The Animal Management System (AMS)

AMS is a complete, integrated solution for managing research animals, ethics compliance, and facility operations. Developed with over 20 years’ experience, it brings together strains, colonies, procedures, job tracking, and reporting into one intuitive platform.

Ethics Management

Handle applications, revisions, compliance events, and reports.

AMS ethics module screenshot

Colony Tracking

Real-time oversight of animals, breeding, enclosures, observations, and procedures.

AMS colony population tab

Reporting & Insights

Comprehensive facility, ethics, and financial reporting tools.

AMS dashboard screenshot

Why Choose AMS?

Integrated Workflow

From ethics to SOPs to colonies, all your animal data flows together seamlessly.

Compliance First

Built to align with national codes, ensuring audits are simple and transparent.

Built by Experts

Developed with over 20 years of experience managing animal research systems.

What Our Users Say

"AMS has transformed how we manage our colonies. It’s intuitive, powerful, and saves us hours every week."

Facility Manager

"AMS lets me focus on my research, not on paperwork. It's streamlined everything."

Researcher

"The compliance features alone are worth it. It’s made reporting so much easier."

Let's go through it!

Strains

Track and standardise the genetic background of animals across your facility. AMS ensures strain data is accurate, consistently applied, and easy to manage.

  • Strain defaults – Automatically pre-fill strain information when setting up new colonies.
  • Species linkage – Every strain is assigned a species, ensuring correct procedural access and ethics alignment.
  • Mutation tracking – Define the set of mutations to be tracked for each strain, including type, order, and optional chromosomal location.
  • Phenotype and welfare – Track phenotype descriptions, background strain, and any associated health and welfare notes for each strain.
  • Facility filtering – Limit strain visibility by facility, streamlining setup for large institutions.
The full strain breakdown
Strain detail with mutations and species

Ethics

Track ethics approvals, usage, and project compliance all in one place. AMS helps ensure researchers only perform approved procedures with certified staff, within valid approvals.

  • Linked applications – Ethics records include project details, approved procedures, certified users, and linked SOPs.
  • PI and staff roles – Assign Principal Investigators, nominees, and supporting staff with appropriate training checks.
  • Version control – Easily revise and update applications while retaining previous versions for auditing and review.
  • Automatic validation – AMS ensures colonies and procedures can only be assigned within valid ethics approvals and by certified users.
  • Usage tracking – View individual ethics usage logs and generate ethics-specific reports by user, colony, or procedure.
  • Annual reporting – Easily generate annual, final, incident and pilot reports, along with animal use returns based on recorded usage and procedural data.
Keep up to date with ethics usage
Ethics usage and reporting screenshot
Ethics project overview
Ethics project summary screenshot

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Ensure consistency, safety, and compliance with a central library of SOPs linked to ethics applications, procedures, and staff training records.

  • Central SOP library – Manage procedures in one place with built-in version control.
  • Ethics-linked procedures – Assign SOPs to ethics applications to define approved methods.
  • Training links – Record staff training against SOPs and surface in colonies when undertaking procedures.
  • Job procedure context – Ensure technicians are following the correct SOP when jobs are scheduled or assigned.
Every SOP, versioned and linked
SOP detail screenshot

Colonies

The heart of AMS — colonies let you track animals, procedures, breeding, enclosures, and ethics in a unified workflow. Every animal is linked to its strain, approvals, and location with ease.

  • Colony detail – See all animals, enclosures, approvals, and procedures tied to a colony in one place.
  • Breeding and matings – Set up matings, track litters, and monitor outcomes with automatic inheritance of strain and ethics.
  • Procedure logs – Record and report procedures with full audit trail and approval checks.
  • Enclosure assignments – Track the physical location of animals and move them as needed with full history. Print and scan enclosure labels.
  • Dashboard overview – Quickly assess animal counts, health flags, or open jobs across all colonies at a glance.
At a glance details
AMS colony dashboard
Comprehensive colony view
AMS colony population tab
Track matings and litters
AMS mating screenshot

...And So Much More

AMS includes a wide range of features designed to streamline day-to-day work, enhance collaboration, and simplify compliance across your facility.

  • Facility jobs – Track daily husbandry, enrichment, cleaning, and health checks within the facility.
  • Global job list – See all assigned jobs across colonies and facilities in one unified dashboard.
  • Training records – Manage staff training and procedure access via linked SOP training entries.
  • Reproductive materials – Record storage and usage of embryos, sperm, and oocytes with links to colonies and procedures.
  • Cohorts – Group animals from different colonies for cross-project tracking and experimental workflows.
  • Animal ordering – Submit and track animal order requests for fulfilment from stock animals tracked on the system.
  • Export & analytics – Export reports to Excel or connect Power BI for advanced data analysis.
  • Full audit trails – Every major action is timestamped and tracked for audit readiness.
  • Attachments – Upload files or link URLs to ethics, colonies, animals, and strains.
  • Notifications – Alerts for job assignments, ethics expiry, overdue training, and more.
  • Multi-site support – Manage multiple facilities with role-based access and separation of records.
  • Cost recovery reports – Automatically calculate and report on enclosure agistments and job requests, with support for multiple levels of reporting granularity.

Frequently Asked Questions

AMS is hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud and delivered as a fully managed SaaS solution. We take care of security, scalability, and availability so you can focus on research, not infrastructure.

Yes. AMS supports integration with external systems to import ethics data. System reports can be exported to Excel. Users can attach files or link to external URLs for relevant data points. AMS also supports read-only connections to Power BI for advanced organisational reporting.

Yes. We offer a fully managed implementation projects tailored to your organisation, including onboarding, training, and configuration to ensure AMS is successfully adopted and aligned with your processes.

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