FAU & Transnetyx Colony+AMI
Dear Lab,
FAU is proud to partner with Transnetyx to bring the most advanced tools in colony data and resource management to you. In today’s research landscape, maximizing space, reducing costs, and improving operational efficiency are more critical than ever. Colony+AMI is more than a data management platform—it’s a strategic tool designed to help your lab streamline workflows, optimize space utilization, and reduce unnecessary resource expenditure.
Why It Matters for Your Lab
✔ Smart Colony Oversight – Track and manage every animal with precision through an Algorithm powered, centralized platform, eliminating overproduction and unnecessary housing.
✔ Predictive Analytics for Space Optimization – Get ahead of colony growth challenges with data-driven insights that forecast trends, helping you plan breeding strategies efficiently and prevent facility overcrowding.
✔ Efficient Resource Allocation – Leverage real-time data to consolidate colonies where needed and free up critical resources for high-priority research.
✔ Lower Maintenance Costs – Optimized space usage means fewer cages, reduced per diem expenses, and minimized facility overhead, allowing for smarter budgeting and cost-effective research operations.
✔ Empower Smarter Workflows – Colony AMI automates routine tasks and provides intuitive insights so that your team can focus on scientific discovery—not administrative burdens.
A Future-Proof Approach to Research
Colony AMI doesn’t just manage your colonies—it transforms how your lab operates by cutting waste, freeing up valuable space, and making your research program more efficient and sustainable.
Why Transnetyx
Transnetyx is uniquely positioned to help individual research labs and institutions align with policy-driven frameworks, including the New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), the 21st Century Cures Act, and the NIH Gold Standard. Through a broad portfolio of products and services that support scientific rigor and the 3Rs, Transnetyx empowers researchers to reduce waste, advance research, and adopt a more modern, data-driven approach to study design and reporting.
Steps for your lab to take to reduce cages
Login to your Transnetyx Colony group often (at least 2-4 weeks minimally).
Review Breeder Alerts and Colony Evaluation recommendations to identify possible breeding and/or housing inefficiencies.
Follow the NEW standard procedure for requests using Colony’s Task Request Feature (for Breeding and Cull requests only)
Testimonials from researchers
Our lab regularly checks for excess cages on a weekly basis and the AMI evaluation function has been especially useful to identify these cages as well as older breeding cages including those with long breaks between litters.
Lab Manager & Research Associate
AMI has been an extremely valuable resource that has helped me to assess which breeders are still viable and which have aged out and need to be culled. This allows for the possibility of more productive breeding pairs in regards to project timelines. The user friendly software makes it easier to submit request forms to DLAM.
Lab Manager & Research Associate
One of the pain points of using the request form is that I have to manually identify the mice or cages that need to be culled due to old age or lack of space and type it onto the request form. It was great to see how AMI automatically assessed my colonies with a few clicks to establish the filters to find mice that could be removed from the colony.
PhD Grad Student Research Associate
Helpful resources to get started
Login to your Transnetyx Colony group often (at least 2-4 weeks minimally).
Please watch the introduction video Introduction to Colony+AMI.
Review Breeder Alerts and review the efficiency of your colony with the Evaluation Tool recommendations to identify possible breeding and/or housing inefficiencies.
Predictive analytics
Colony AMI Project Planner
Colony AMI Notifications Hub
Colony AMI Pedigree Tree
Artificial Mouse Intelligence
More science in every cage.
Manage your colony more efficiently with less effort. Based on your research goals and resources, AMI will:
Guide you to a more efficient cage footprint.
Reduce the number of animals housed over the course of your project.
Optimize your production of viable experimental subjects.
Transnetyx Artificial Mouse Intelligence
Want more from your Colony?
Transnetyx Support Hub
AMI - Learn how Colony+AMI (Artificial Mouse Intelligence) can transform your lab’s productivity, efficiency, and accuracy through breeder alerts, pedigree draw tool, colony evaluation and cage consolidation suggestions, and a robust project planning tool.
Mice - Learn how to view and sort your mouse records quickly and efficiency and how to leverage Colony+AMI’s sophisticated and customizable data tables for your analysis and reporting needs.
Genotyping - See how Transnetyx’s Automated Genotyping service seamlessly integrates with Colony+AMI to make placing orders, reviewing results, and assigning genotypes quick and easy while eliminating recording errors.
Breedings - Learn how to request breedings, view active and retired breeding records, and how to use Colony for tracking times matings and embryo harvests.
Support HubQuestions? We are here to help!
Contact the Software Implementation Team
For Technical Support | Email: colony@transnetyx.com
Meosha Hudson
Bob Schustack
