Create cages and animals before they are enrolled in a study
Benchling In Vivo, Allows you to register cages and animals as they arrive in your vivarium before they have been assigned to a study. Keep track of all of the cages and animals in your facility through Colony.
To create cages and animals:
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Click Add new
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Define the number of cages to create
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Enter the number of animals in each under population
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Add metadata columns if additional cage information is required
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Click Next to enter Animal details
Next:
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Complete Sex and DOB for all animals
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Add metadata columns if additional animal information is required
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Click next.
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Click Continue to create these cages and animals in your colony.
Note: You can copy and paste information into this table from a spreadsheet or use the dragging down a column or double clicking on the lower right hand corner of a cell to fill to the end of the column.