VMS-Fish: A comprehensive application for zebrafish husbandry management (2025)

Muraleedharan Saraswathy, V., Mokalled, M. H.

Abstract

Zebrafish are widely used and increasingly adopted in developmental biology, disease modeling and tissue regeneration research. However, a freely available and user-friendly zebrafish husbandry management application has been lacking. Here, we developed an open-source fish management application, referred to as VMS-Fish (https://shinypath.wustl.edu/vmsfishdb/), to accurately track and manage zebrafish stocks. The VMS-Fish application includes default user logging and exclusive administrative privileges, making it a robust and error-free option for individual users, small laboratories and large consortia managers. With easy online and offline installation options, VMS-Fish provides an intuitive and freely available resource for zebrafish researchers worldwide.