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Izaskun Mallona1, Miguel A Peinado2
1Health 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, Badalona, 08916, Spain. imallona@igtp.cat.
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 .
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