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

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. We have developed Truke, a fexible Web tool to...

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Published inBMC genomics Vol. 18; no. 1; p. 242
Main Authors Mallona, Izaskun, Peinado, Miguel A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England BioMed Central 21.03.2017
Subjects
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology - methods
Corruption
Data integrity
Dictionaries
Format
Genomics
Genomics - methods
Names
Scientific papers
Software
Symbols
Web Browser
Webs
Machine readability
Data conversion
Excel
Structured data
Gene symbol
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Summary: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. 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. 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 .
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ISSN:1471-2164
1471-2164
DOI:10.1186/s12864-017-3631-8