Since in most cases, the information Study requires about the animal (its attributes and location) are also maintained in a colony system, Study provides a bulk import function to upload data from your colony system into Study – see Importing Animals
Where endpoints or health interventions are identified during the course of the study, and these are recorded in Study, these conditions should be updated and reflected back into the colony system where further action and record keeping should be maintained.
For organisations who do not currently have or use a separate colony system, the Animal and Workbench function offer a simple, integrated colony management function. It is also possible to use the Study Tasks function to create and manage basic husbandry tasks, although these have to be defined first as Test Methods and then added to each study.