title: Bloader--a batch loader application for MIAMExpress.
abstract: BLoader is a client server application for annotating and loading large amounts of Microarray data into a local installation of the MIAMExpress database. A set of nested spreadsheets is used to collect the required MIAME annotation. Controlled vocabularies are downloaded from MIAMExpress and ArrayExpress databases to guarantee MIAME compliance.
  
  
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  The application is available from the author at http://www.ansorge-group.embl.de/bloader
  
  
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  schwager@embl.de
  
  
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  For more details on BLoader visit the above web page.
authors.affiliation: EMBL, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 67117 Heidelberg, Germany. schwager@embl.de
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwager
authors.forename: Jonathon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blake
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface