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General Database Information

EURL ECVAM

The EURL ECVAM DataBase service on ALternative Methods (DB-ALM).

Topic: Alternative methods, Information on drugs and diseases

NORINA (A Norwegian Inventory of Alternatives)

NORINA is an English-language database containing information on over 3,500 audiovisual aids that may be used as alternatives or supplements to the use of animals in education and training, including dissection alternatives, at all levels from Junior School to University.  The information in the database has been collected from 1991 onwards.

Topic: Alternative methods, Search tools and databases

ECVAM QSAR Model Inventory

EURL ECVAM QSAR Model Inventory of the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC).

Topic: Alternative methods

European Consensus-Platform for Alternatives (ECOPA)
Topic: Alternative methods

Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments (FRAME)
Topic: Alternative methods

Alternatives-NIH-USA-ICCVAM
Topic: Alternative methods

ALTWEB-Alternatives to Animal Testing
Topic: Alternative methods

Altbib-Bibliography on Alternatives to Animal Testing

ALTBIB is a search tool that retrieves PubMed citations on alternatives to the use of live vertebrates in biomedical research and testing. It includes citations from published articles, books, book chapters, and technical reports. It also provides links to news sources and additional resources on alternatives to animal testing.

A wide variety of topics are covered, including biologics and vaccines, carcinogenesis, cytotoxicity, ecotoxicity, genotoxicity, hepatic/renal toxicity, immunotoxicity/immunology, neurotoxicity, ocular toxicity, pharmacokinetic/mechanistic studies, pyrogenicity, pulmonary toxicity, quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR), reproductive and developmental toxicity, skin toxicity, and animal welfare.

Topic: Alternative methods

Species specific

Zebrafish Related Biological Data

ZebrafishMine is a tool to help you customize searches of Zebrafish related biological data including genes, proteins, fish, and reagents

Topic: Fish

RSPCA- Housing and Care of Aquatic Species
Topic: Fish

Zebrafish Genome Project

The Sanger Institute started the zebrafish genome sequencing project in 2001 and has generated several genome assemblies of the Tuebingen strain. After the release of Zv9, the zebrafish genome project joined the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) for further improvement and ongoing maintenance. The GRC has now released a new reference assembly, GRCz11.

Topic: Fish

Fish Arthritis Research

According to a new study in eLife, arthritis is much more widespread in the animal kingdom than previously suspected.

Topic: Fish

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