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Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics

BACKGROUND: When processing microarray data sets, we recently noticed that some gene names were being changed inadvertently to non-gene names. RESULTS: A little detective work traced the problem to default date format conversions and floating-point format conversions in the very useful Excel program...

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Autores principales: Zeeberg, Barry R, Riss, Joseph, Kane, David W, Bussey, Kimberly J, Uchio, Edward, Linehan, W Marston, Barrett, J Carl, Weinstein, John N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC459209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15214961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-5-80