Truke, a web tool to check for and handle excel misidentified gene symbols

BACKGROUND: Genomic datasets accompanying scientific publications show a surprisingly high rate of gene name corruption. This error is generated when files and tables are imported into Microsoft Excel and certain gene symbols are automatically converted into dates. RESULTS: We have developed Truke,...

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Autores principales: Mallona, Izaskun, Peinado, Miguel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5359807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28327106
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3631-8
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Genomic datasets accompanying scientific publications show a surprisingly high rate of gene name corruption. This error is generated when files and tables are imported into Microsoft Excel and certain gene symbols are automatically converted into dates. RESULTS: We have developed Truke, a fexible Web tool to detect, tag and fix, if possible, such misconversions. Aside, Truke is language and regional locale-aware, providing file format customization (decimal symbol, field sepator, etc.) following user’s preferences. CONCLUSIONS: Truke is a data format conversion tool with a unique corrupted gene symbol detection utility. Truke is freely available without registration at http://maplab.cat/truke. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-017-3631-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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