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IMPC

General information

URL: https://www.mousephenotype.org
Full name: The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
Description: The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium web portal makes available curated, integrated and analysed knockout mouse phenotyping data generated by the IMPC project consisting of 85M data points and over 95,000 statistically significant phenotype hits mapped to human diseases.
Year founded: 2014
Last update: 2026-03-16
Version: v24.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United Kingdom

Classification & Tag

Data type:
DNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: European Bioinformatics Institute
Address: European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Welcome Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK.
City: Hinxton
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Country/Region: United Kingdom
Contact name (PI/Team): Robert Wilson
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): rwilson@ebi.ac.uk

Publications

41231752
International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium Portal: facilitating investigation of gene function and providing insights into human disease. [PMID: 41231752]
Wilson R, Bülbül Ataç T, Cheng TK, Frost A, Güneş O, Kan M, Keskivali-Bond P, López Gómez F, McLaughlin J, Mucha J, Munava T, Oliveira C, Pava D, Peña Estrada JF, Selkirk E, Vardal B, Wells S, Cacheiro P, Smedley D, Parkinson H.

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC; https://www.mousephenotype.org/) web portal contains phenotype data for mouse protein-coding genes derived from analysis of data obtained in a systematic and high-throughput fashion from knock-out lines produced by IMPC. The project has produced >1400 candidate mouse models of human disease that recapitulate phenotypes observed in patients. Over 8000 papers rely on data or reagents generated by IMPC, demonstrating the impact of the project on the research and clinical communities, and IMPC data is incorporated into other resources, such as MGI, Open Targets, and UniProt. Data release (DR23.0, 2025) contains >100 million data points from 9277 genes and identified 113 803 significant phenotypes. To manage efficient access to this quantity of high dimensional data the IMPC web portal has been rebuilt using a cloud native architecture. The modern user interface retains the look and feel of the original portal with improvements identified through a usability study. New data visualization and training materials for large scale data access through the API have also been developed to make the resource easier to use.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2026:54(D1) | 6 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2026-08-01)
36305825
The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: comprehensive knockout phenotyping underpinning the study of human disease. [PMID: 36305825]
Tudor Groza, Federico Lopez Gomez, Hamed Haseli Mashhadi, Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes, Osman Gunes, Robert Wilson, Pilar Cacheiro, Anthony Frost, Piia Keskivali-Bond, Bora Vardal, Aaron McCoy, Tsz Kwan Cheng, Luis Santos, Sara Wells, Damian Smedley, Ann-Marie Mallon, Helen Parkinson

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC; https://www.mousephenotype.org/) web portal makes available curated, integrated and analysed knockout mouse phenotyping data generated by the IMPC project consisting of 85M data points and over 95,000 statistically significant phenotype hits mapped to human diseases. The IMPC portal delivers a substantial reference dataset that supports the enrichment of various domain-specific projects and databases, as well as the wider research and clinical community, where the IMPC genotype-phenotype knowledge contributes to the molecular diagnosis of patients affected by rare disorders. Data from 9,000 mouse lines and 750 000 images provides vital resources enabling the interpretation of the ignorome, and advancing our knowledge on mammalian gene function and the mechanisms underlying phenotypes associated with human diseases. The resource is widely integrated and the lines have been used in over 4,600 publications indicating the value of the data and the materials.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2023:51(D1) | 340 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2026-08-08)

Ranking

All databases:
152/6935 (97.823%)
Raw bio-data:
16/588 (97.449%)
Metadata:
20/728 (97.39%)
Genotype phenotype and variation:
29/1020 (97.255%)
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Total Rank
326
Citations
108.667
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Created on: 2023-08-23
Curated by:
liu yuxi [2026-07-10]
Yuxin Qin [2023-09-12]
Xinyu Zhou [2023-09-11]
Yue Qi [2023-08-23]