ZFIN

The Zebrafish Model Organism Database

Funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (P41 HG002659) of the National Institutes of Health

Background:

A group of us were appointed at the 1994 Cold Spring Harbor meeting on zebrafish genetics and development, to establish an on-line database of information for zebrafish researchers.

Goals:

ZFIN serves as the zebrafish model organism database. The long term goals for ZFIN are a) to be the community database resource for the laboratory use of zebrafish, b) to develop and support integrated zebrafish genetic, genomic and developmental information, c) to maintain the definitive reference data sets of zebrafish research information, d) to link this information extensively to corresponding data in other model organism and human databases, e) to facilitate the use of zebrafish as a model for human biology and f) to serve the needs of the research community.

ZIRC is the Zebrafish International Resource Center, an independent NIH-funded facility providing a wide range of zebrafish lines, probes and health services. ZFIN works closely with ZIRC to connect our genetic data with available probes and fish lines.

Research staff:

Monte Westerfield, P.I.; Judy Sprague, database director; and the rest of the ZFIN Database Team.

Advisory board:

Janan T. Eppig, Jackson Laboratory; William Gelbart, Harvard University; Tim Hubbard, Sanger Institute of the Wellcome Trust; Stephen Johnson, Washington University; Robert Geisler, Max Planck Institut, Tübingen; Teresa Nicolson, Oregon Health & Science University.

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