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
