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CSV import with AI column mapping, Slack integration, cage card printing, cost tracking, and reports.
23 guides
- 01
Quick Edit Cell
Edit values directly in any data grid: double-click an editable cell and Moustra shows the right input (text, number, date, or dropdown). Press Enter to save or Escape to cancel.
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How to Print Cage Cards
Print cage labels with animal tags, strain, and IACUC information for physical cage identification.
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How to Connect Slack
Receive real-time notifications in Slack for litters, weans, and colony milestones without logging into Moustra.
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How to Configure Daily Reports
Set up automated email summaries of colony activity delivered each morning to your team.
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How to Invite Team Members
Add colleagues to your Moustra organization, assign roles, and control what each person can see or edit.
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How to Set Up Plug Tracking
Record plug observations, anchor the embryonic day clock at E0.5, and target a harvest day for embryo collection in Moustra.
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How to Use Cheese AI
Ask plain-English questions about your colony and get answers from your live Moustra data through the built-in Cheese AI assistant.
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How to Customize Cage Card Templates
Customize cage card templates in Moustra to match your institution's required fields, physical card size, and printing setup.
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How to Export Colony Data to Excel
Export any list view in Moustra — Animals, Cages, Matings, and more — to an Excel spreadsheet for analysis, backups, or institutional reporting, filtered and column-scoped exactly the way you see it.
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How to View Weekly Reports
Open the automatic weekly colony summaries Moustra generates for your lab — population, cage cost and utilization, breeding, and team activity — from the Reports tab under Insights.
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How to Configure Default Wean and Tail Sample Ages
Set lab-wide and per-strain defaults for when new pups are weaned and when their genotyping sample is due.
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How to Create a Study
Set up a new research study in Moustra to organize animals, groups, measurements, and treatments under one protocol.
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How to Add Animals to a Study
Use the Cohort Builder to filter your colony, preview matching animals, and add them to a study, then exclude any that should not count.
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How to Set Up Study Groups, Treatments, and Timeline
Organize a study into cohorts, assign animals, log treatments, schedule timeline time-points, and record measurements — all from the study detail tabs.
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How to Randomize and Blind a Study
Randomly assign study animals into treatment groups and generate blinded IDs so observers can record data without knowing each animal's group.
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How to View Study Reports and Export Data
View a study's summary report and export its animals, groups, measurements, and summary data as CSV files.
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How to Collect and Manage Samples
Define a reusable takedown schema, collect tissue samples from animals against it, then track, edit, and archive those samples.
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Plans, Billing & Subscriptions
Moustra offers subscription plans sized for different labs and needs. This guide explains the available tiers, what each unlocks, and how to view your current plan, usage, and billing.
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Roles, Permissions & Data Ownership
Moustra lets you record your position in the lab and tracks who owns each animal and cage. This guide covers selecting your position, how ownership works, and how ownership drives notifications and coordination.
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Security, Privacy & Providing Feedback
Moustra takes data security seriously and isolates each lab's data. This guide explains the platform's security and privacy practices and how to send the team feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.
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Data Grids: Filtering, Date Formats & Electronic IDs
Moustra's data grids include quick header filters, consistent date handling, and optional Electronic IDs for easy reference. This guide covers filtering rows with header filters, the date formats Moustra recognizes and displays, and enabling EIDs for tracking.
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Understanding Animal Records: Maturity, Received Date & Multiple Dams
Several animal record concepts affect breeding automation and record accuracy. This guide explains how Moustra determines maturity, how the received date tracks arrivals, and how multiple dams are recorded for fostering scenarios.
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Settings & Onboarding Extras
Beyond core setup, Moustra offers lab customizations and learning aids. This guide covers customizing end types and reasons, adding notes to records, using guided tours, and managing lab settings and users from the mobile app.
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