Submissions to EMMA
Please use the online submission form to submit your strains. Receipt of the online submission form will be confirmed by an automatic Email notification. For more information about the submission process please check the FAQs section.
Evaluation
Mouse strains submitted for archiving are evaluated by EMMA's external scientific committee. The committee comprises experts in the field of mouse genetics. They evaluate each submission to the EMMA repository, thereby ensuring that the research community has access to valuable mouse mutant strains with significance for current and future genetic research. Within 60 days EMMA will inform depositors about the outcome of the evaluation.
Costs
The EMMA cryopreservation service is free of charge. However, customers have to cover the actual costs for shipping material to the EMMA facilities.
Requirements for cryopreservation
Once approval has been granted, depositors are asked to send mice of breeding age to one of the EMMA partners for embryo or spermatozoa cryopreservation. If embryos are to be frozen down EMMA requires the depositor to send several breeding animals, ideally 10 females and 6 males. For sperm freezing, EMMA asks the depositor for 6 males. Under normal circumstances it will take EMMA between 4 and 6 months to freeze down a heterozygous mutant strain once the archiving centre has received the animals.
Intellectual property rights
Deposited lines are distributed under the legally binding EMMA conditions.
Any already existing Material Transfer Agreements will remain in full force and effect.