Blood counting machines aspirate a very small amount of the specimen through narrow tubing followed by an aperture and a laser flow cell. Laser eye sensors count the number of cells passing through the aperature, and can identify them; this is flow cytometry.
In computing, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) refers to a process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that performs: Data extraction â extracts data from homogeneous or heterogeneous data sources.
ETL is used to migrate data from one database to another, and is often the specific process required to load data to and from data marts and data warehouses, but is a process that is also used to to large convert (transform) databases from one format or type to another.