Bio::Maxd provides several methods for uploading and retrieving data to/from a maxd (MySQL) database. "maxd" is a data warehouse and visualization environment for microarray expression data developed by the Microarray Group at Manchester Bioinformatics (http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/microarray/) Prerequisites: DBI 1.29 DBD::mysql 2.1 HTML::Template 2.5 To build: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install NOTES: 1. Set these environment variables for Maxd.pm to know where to connect to setenv MAXD_USERID "userid/password" setenv MAXD_HOSTDB "database_host" or set the values inside your script by using $ENV{'MAXD_USERID'}="userid/password"; $ENV{'MAXD_HOSTDB'}="database_host"; 2. Maxd uses extra tables for simulating a sequence in mysql for the following tables: Hybridisation, Image, Measurement and Description. Please run once the script extendMaxD to create and initialize tables Hybridisation_Seq, Image_Seq, etc. Jaime Prilusky, 2002