Linnaeus Colony Assistant
Ask about your colony in plain English. Linnaeus answers from your lab's own records and prepares changes for you to confirm.
Comes with Lab Pro ($79/mo billed yearly), Biotech Pro and every plan above them
Two active pairs have had no litter in the last 60 days:
| Pair | Cage | Last litter |
|---|---|---|
| M-0412 × F-0388 | B-12 | 94 days ago |
| M-0420 × F-0391 | B-14 | none yet |
Change to confirm
Move 2 animals to a new cage, B-19
- Create cage B-19 (holding, capacity 5)
- Move M-0431 from B-14 to B-19
- Move M-0433 from B-14 to B-19
Plain English in, answers from your records out
Ask the way you would ask your lab manager. Linnaeus looks the answer up in your lab's records and replies with the number, the list or a table. Every animal, cage and protocol it names links to its record.
- No query language to learn
- Answers come from lookups of your own records, never from guesses
- Animal IDs, cage numbers and protocol numbers link to their records
- A table when there are many rows, one number when that is the answer
- Follow-up questions build on the conversation
Changes you confirm
Ask for a change and Linnaeus prepares a card that lists each one, with warnings worked out from your current records. Nothing changes until you press Confirm. The change then goes through the same checks, permissions and activity log as the app's own forms.
- Move animals, add animals and cages, record cage changes, litters, weaning, genotypes and status changes, and set up breeding pairs
- Warnings for cage capacity, mixed sexes or strains, protocol limits, relatives and breeder age
- Confirm makes the changes in order and stops at the first one that fails
- Each confirmed card is recorded in the activity log
- Cancel discards the card, and nothing is saved
Change to confirm
Set up the pair M-0431 × F-0402
- Move M-0431 from B-14 to B-21
- Set up the pair M-0431 × F-0402 in cage B-21 (maintenance)
Check first
M-0431 and F-0402 share a parent.
Your lab's records, and only yours
Linnaeus reads records through fixed lookups that are limited to your lab before any question is asked. It cannot run SQL, reach another organization, or see accounts and billing. In a core facility, PIs and lab members see only their own labs.
- Your organization and your labs come from your sign-in, never from the question
- No SQL and no direct database access
- Notes and other text in records are read as data, not as instructions
- Up to 50 questions a day for each lab or facility, with the count shown in the panel
Lab scope
Set by your sign-in and applied to every lookup.
Built for colony questions
Linnaeus knows how colonies are run: breeders, litters and weaning, cage changes and capacity, protocol limits and genotype notation.
- Colony terms: breeder, sire and dam, litter, P21, weaning, cage change, capacity
- Genotype notation: +/+, fl/+, fl/fl, Cre/+, HET and HOM
- Time windows: last month, this year, the last 30 days, older than 8 months
- Tested on 30 common colony questions before release
Things to ask
- Which active breeding pairs have had no litter in the last 60 days?
- Which litters are due to wean?
- How many alive females are on protocol IACUC-2026-001?
- Which cages hold more animals than their capacity?
- Which alive animals are Cre carriers and fl/fl at Pten?
- What share of each protocol's approved count is in use?
- Move the two males in B-14 to a new cage
- Record a litter of 8 for M-0412 × F-0388
One keystroke from any page
Cmd+K (Ctrl+K on Windows) opens Linnaeus beside the page you are on. On a cage or animal page it knows which record you mean, and it suggests what to ask from that page and your records.
- Cmd+K or Ctrl+K opens it from any page of the app, and Esc closes it
- On a record's page, "this cage" means that cage
- Four suggestions drawn from the page and your records
- Fills the screen on a phone, for questions at the rack
- Speak a question where your browser supports it
Suggested for this cage
Move the 3 animals in B-14
Record a cage change for B-14
Who is in B-14?
Ask your colony in plain English
Linnaeus comes with Lab Pro, Biotech Pro and every plan above them.