User Guide

Uploading Data
Using Batch Upload (continued)
7. The file to be loaded must be a tab-
delimited text file (txt). GeneSifter
does not accept Excel spreadsheets
(xls).
The first column
(Column A in the
figure) should contain an identifier
for that gene. Accepted identifiers
are:
 Accession Number
 IMAGE Clone ID
 Affymetrix Probeset IDs
The second column (Column B) is
for an internal identifier. This is left
to the discretion of the user and can
be left blank.
The next 2 columns contain the
intensity (Column C) and quality
values (Column D) for that gene in
the first experiment to be loaded.
Additional experiments are added in
the same way (one column for
intensity, one for quality).
The first row
must contain this information.
A: This cell can be empty.
B: This cell can be empty.
C: Target name for Experiment #1.
D: Condition for Experiment #1.
E: Target name for Experiment #2.
F: Condition name for Experiment #2,
etc.
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