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Hi Steven, That page isn't quite what you wanted, I think. It had one plugin called exprSetBuilder. You can look at the Google cache: http://64.233.167.104/search? q=cache:6lhZbkx5tIkJ:www.bioconductor.org/excel/excel.html You can easily create a Bioconductor script that imports the excel data properly (just export the excel file as a csv file). If the Excel files are consistent, then the conversion shouldn't be problematic. You could also look at http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/dcom/ http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/contrib/extra/excel/ I've never tried any of those but if you're planning on using Excel as your main workhorse, it's probably closer to what you want. Francois On Thu, 2005-14-07 at 14:51 +0200, Steven Van Vooren wrote: > Dear List, > > Like so many people, we analyse our microarray data primarily in Excel, > and want to integrate our workflow more tightly with custom tools. The > transfer of data between Excel and BioC is manual and hence error prone. > > Does anyone have expericence in building MS Excel plugins that rely on > BioConductor? > > I noticed http://www.bioconductor.org/excel/excel.html has one plugin, > but it's a dead link. > > Thanks, > Steven >