MouseTrack (Baker et al. 2004) and GeneNetwork (Chesler et al. 2004; Wang et al. 2003) are the two main resources used for data storage, sharing and analysis. MouseTrack serves as the primary data archive and analysis engine for individual mouse data, whereas GeneNetwork serves as the database and analysis engine for QTL mapping, genetic correlation of strain means and integration with other public data from the BXD RI reference population. MouseTrack consists of an ORACLE database and customized sas (version 9.1.3, Cary, NC, USA) client tools for genetic analysis. MouseTrack's RI analysis tools include univariate analysis, box plots of individual strain data, and linear models of sex, treatment and strain effects and interactions, heritability, sub-population effects, and estimation of strain means and strain means by sex for export into GeneNetwork.org. Detailed information about each of the phenotypic values and protocols used to generate them are also accessible from MouseTrack. The MouseTrack tool also performs individual outlier detection, multi-variate outlier detection and distributional evaluation including displays of the phenotypic distributions within strain. These tools can be used to identify phenotypically extreme
