The document describes the Sanger Mouse Resources Portal, an attempt at a federated approach to creating a collaborative data portal for mouse genomic data. The portal aggregates data from 5 sources using a search engine and data services that allow each group to host their own data and expose it via defined interfaces. This avoids any single group having total control while allowing new data to be easily added. However, it also risks redundancy and lacks centralized curation of the whole collection.