Access your animal facility data anytime, anywhere
PyRAT – The Leading Animal Facility Management Software
PyRAT is our web-based software solution designed to boost facility efficiency, reduce compliance risks, and give all stakeholders — researchers, facility managers, and staff — secure, centralized access to critical data. With a fully backed-up central database, your team can safely access information from anywhere, saving time and enabling convenient off-site management.
Developed and continuously refined in close collaboration with our users, PyRAT has been a stable and trusted solution since 2003. Available in Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, it has become the leading animal colony management software in Europe and is trusted by facilities around the world.
Key Benefits of Using PyRAT
- Stay Compliant with Confidence: PyRAT tracks communications and authorizations, helping your facility reduce compliance risks effortlessly.
- Optimize Time and Resources: Streamlined billing and cost accounting allow your team to work more efficiently and make the most of available resources.
- Controlled, Customizable Access: Users can view and store their data the way they want, ensuring the right information is available to the right people at all times.
- Proactive Notifications: Automatic alerts help your team respond quickly to critical events, improving safety and operational awareness.
- Simplify and Automate Workflows: PyRAT reduces manual tasks, increases efficiency, and improves data reliability, saving your facility time, money, and effort — with less stress and more confidence.
PyRAT's Main Features
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Animal Management
- Location management with graphical rack display
- Occupancy report
- Complete animal history
- Cage card/Cage label printing in individual layout
- Platform for shared animals
- Health records
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Compliance
- Real-time information in one centralized system
- Audit trail
- Full history tracking
- Authorization management (according to directive 2010/63/EU)
- Severity assessment for genetically modified lines
- Single-Sign-On authentication systems integration add-on
- Training and competences
- SOP management
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Breeding
- Extended line/strain management
- Generation tracking
- Animal and line/strain pedigree graphs
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Genotyping
- Wellplate management
- Genotyping stickers for Eppendorf tubes
- Import of genotyping results into PyRAT (Transnetyx‘s generated XML files, CSV based files)
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Statistics
- Real-time reporting (weaning and breeding information, animal and cage usage, etc.)
- Generation of European statistical report (according to directives 2012/707/EU and 2014/11/EU)
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Ordering
- Special services ordering
- Suppliers and supplier catalogs
- Internal and external animal orders
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Experiments
- Authorization tracking
- Scoresheets
- Procedures
- Document uploads
- Comment system
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Communication and integration add-ons
- Configurable emails for user notifications, reminders, alerts...
- API to integrate with other systems
- Interfaces to Tecniplast DVC and other systems
- Click here to learn more about PyRAT add-ons
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Budgeting and invoices
- Quickly retrieve budgeting information for animal housing, orders, procedures, or any kind of service
- Individual layouts for invoices
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Task Management
- Work request system enabling effective communication between scientists, caretakers, and managers
- Full history of all requests and completed tasks
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Usability
- Getting started documents available in PyRAT
- Easy data handling (single/multiple animals or cages)
- User configurable views and filters
See It. Try It. Love It.
Get hands-on with PyRAT through a private demo installation — completely free and with no obligations. Explore the features, test your workflows, and discover how easily it can transform the way you work.
Curious to see more? For login details or any questions, just reach out to us — we’ll get you set up in no time.
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+49 351 20270700