Can I transfer non-App Store apps to the App Store?

Almost all of the apps on my MacBook Pro were purchased from the developers' websites, in the days before the App Store.  I'm about to upgrade to a new computer, and realized that doing a clean install would be a lot easier if I could just let the App Store re-load my apps.
Is there any way I can assign my pre-App Store apps to the App Store so the App Store will upgrade them?

The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico my first language is Spanish. I do not speak English, however I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
No, the Mac App Store is not capable of doing that.

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