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

BMC Genomics

Software

Miguel A. Peinado¹  Izaskun Mallona¹ 

[1] Health Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Program for Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer, Can Ruti Campus. Ctra. de Can Ruti, camí de les escoles, s/n, 08916, Badalona, Spain;

关键词: Gene symbol;    Excel;    Structured data;    Data conversion;    Machine readability;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12864-017-3631-8

 received in 2017-01-10, accepted in 2017-03-15,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundGenomic 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.ResultsWe 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.ConclusionsTruke 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.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2017