The Canadian Mouse Consortium was established in 2004 with goals to integrate the strengths of Canadian mouse technologies, enable Canadian-led research programs that rely on mouse genetics, and lead and participate in international efforts to establish a publicly available mutant mouse resource.

The project will provide five enabling platforms:

• high throughput mutant production
• high throughput mouse phenotyping
• genotyping and gene expression analysis
• archiving, maintenance, recovery and distribution
• informatics and databases