A connected workflow for research animal facilities.

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 associated health and welfare notes.
• Facility filtering - limit strain visibility by facility, streamlining setup for large institutions.

The full strain breakdown

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 - revise and update applications while retaining previous versions for auditing and review.
• Automatic validation - ensure 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 - 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 project overview

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 training 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

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.

• 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 with full history. Print and scan enclosure labels.
• Dashboard overview - quickly assess animal counts, health flags, production status, or open jobs across colonies.

At a glance details

Comprehensive colony view

Track matings and litters

Production Colonies and Ordering

AMS supports production colony workflows for facilities that need to manage stock, breeding output, order fulfilment, and production reporting without treating every production animal as a standard individually managed colony animal.

Explore production colony workflows

Production enclosure view

Facility Operations, Reporting, and More

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