The JCMS Colony Management System
JCMS Community Forum
Have your questions answered by JCMS professionals
Educational Webinar on JCMS, May 31st. Live JCMS demo, discussion, and Q&A session.
NEW! JCMS Web release!
Check out the new JCMS Web Release v1.2.0 Please provide your input and feedback on the JCMS user forum discussion thread.
JCMS Users Survey
Your input is important to us, because JCMS development is user driven. Thank you in advance for your input.
The Jackson Laboratory's Colony Management System (JCMS) is a free and supported multi-user relational database management system for managing research mouse colonies. Support for JCMS is provided by NIGMS, HHMI, and The Jackson Laboratory. JCMS has a broad user-community with currently over 2000 people signed up on the JCMS user support list and nearly 300 people signed up on the JCMS community user forum.
JCMS is designed for medium size (1 to 30 people) work groups. More information on JCMS can be found in the comprehensive user guide or the JCMS overview page.
View the published article about JCMS in Mammalian Genome.
Download JCMS (v4.4.0 or v3.4.3):
- download JCMS (approx 30 MB)
JCMS 4.4 User Guide and Release Note can be downloaded
- download the v4.4.x user guide (pdf)
- download the v4.4.x release note (pdf)
JCMS 3.4 User Guide and Release Note can be downloaded
Upgrade your existing JCMS system to the latest releases:
The JCMS MS Access Upgrader is available for v4.4.0
- download the JCMS MS Access Upgrader
The JCMS MySQL Upgrader is currently available for v4.4.0
- download the JCMS MySQL Upgrader
Convert your JCMS database to use a MySQL database
You can convert your MS Access database backend to use MySQL. The interface will not change. Note that the MySQL converter works on JCMS versions 3.0 and higher.
JCMS Pedigree Tracking tool
View your mouse pedigree trees.
