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 p...
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Zeeberg, Barry R [verfasserIn]

Riss, Joseph

Kane, David W

Bussey, Kimberly J

Uchio, Edward

Linehan, W Marston

Barrett, J Carl

Weinstein, John N

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E-Artikel

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Englisch

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2004

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Format Conversion

Default Date

Detective Work

Conversion Problem

Downstream Data Analysis

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© Zeeberg et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2004. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.

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Enthalten in: BMC bioinformatics - London : BioMed Central, 2000, 5(2004), 1 vom: 23. Juni

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volume:5 ; year:2004 ; number:1 ; day:23 ; month:06

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10.1186/1471-2105-5-80

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SPR026821699

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