Moustra Features

Take Moustra with you wherever you go. Our mobile app gives you full access to your colony data, allowing you to monitor, update, and manage your research from anywhere. Perfect for checking on your colony during rounds or while away from the lab.

Moustra is the first and only dedicated mobile app for mouse colony management. Walk up to any cage, scan its barcode, and instantly view the full breeding history, genotyping status, and health records for every animal inside. Update weaning dates, log observations, and reassign animals directly from your phone or tablet.

• •Full colony access on iOS and Android
• •Barcode scanning for instant cage access
• •Real-time sync with desktop platform
• •Quick cage and animal lookups
• •Push notifications for important updates

Data visualization exactly like Excel or Google Spreadsheet. Double-click to edit, sort, and filter your colony data seamlessly. No learning curve — just familiar functionality with powerful research features.

Researchers transitioning from spreadsheets will feel at home immediately. View all your cages, animals, and breeding records in a familiar grid layout. Sort by any column, apply multi-column filters, and bulk-edit records without leaving the interface. All changes sync in real time across your entire team.

• •Familiar spreadsheet interface
• •Double-click to edit cells instantly
• •Advanced sorting and filtering options
• •Export data in multiple formats

Stay on top of every weaning date, breeding event, and lab task with Moustra's integrated calendar. See your entire colony schedule at a glance and never let a critical deadline slip through the cracks.

Moustra automatically generates tasks based on your colony data — weaning reminders, cage change schedules, genotyping deadlines, and protocol expiration alerts. Assign tasks to team members, set priorities, and track completion. Real-time push notifications keep your entire team aligned, whether they're at the bench or away from the lab.

• •Integrated calendar with breeding and weaning events
• •Automated task generation from colony data
• •Push notifications for upcoming deadlines
• •Team task assignment and progress tracking

Create protocols, assign animals, set species and USDA pain categories, and keep every amendment on file. Moustra tracks which animals belong to which protocol in real time, so compliance reporting stops being an end-of-year scramble.

Approaching your approved animal limit? Moustra flags it before you book the next mating. PIs and lab managers see protocol usage at a glance, amendment history is preserved, and documentation is ready when the IACUC office asks.

• •Protocol lifecycle: create, amend, assign animals
• •USDA pain category and species tracking
• •Approaching-limit warnings in real time
• •Full amendment and assignment history

Fully customizable templates — design the cage card your lab actually wants. Pick exactly which fields appear (cage tag, strain, owner/PI, set-up date, mating info, litter details, per-animal rows, and more), drop in a QR or barcode, and print on standard 3x5 or 4x6 stock. Every card stays in sync with the live record behind it.

Scan any cage card barcode with the Moustra mobile app and jump straight to that cage — instantly see every animal inside, update weans, log observations, and reassign animals right from the bench. No typing cage IDs, no searching, no walking back to the desktop.

• •Fully customizable templates — choose every field, layout, and branding element
• •3x5 and 4x6 presets for standard cage card stock
• •Scan the barcode with the Moustra mobile app to open the cage instantly
• •Batch printing for entire racks

Set up breeding pairs in seconds, log plug events the moment they happen, and record litters with offspring counts by sex. Moustra builds the full breeding timeline for every pair so you can see exactly which matings are producing and which aren't.

Wean dates, pup counts, and parental genotypes flow automatically into your animal records — no double entry. Identify top-producing pairs, retire unproductive ones, and give PIs a clear picture of breeding throughput across the colony.

• •Create and track mating pairs with full history
• •Record plug events with precise timing
• •Litter logging with sex-separated pup counts
• •Automatic wean-date calculation and alerts

Every morning — and every Monday — Moustra delivers a clean summary of your colony to PIs and lab managers. Active cages, breeding activity, upcoming weans, new litters, and a running cost snapshot, all in a single scannable report.

No dashboards to open, no reports to build. Drop the daily in your inbox with coffee; get the weekly in time for lab meeting. Your PI finally has the colony context they keep asking for, without anyone building slides.

• •Automated daily colony summaries
• •Weekly PI-ready reports with cost snapshot
• •Highlights breeding activity, weans, and new litters
• •Delivered via email — no login required to read