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 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 .
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, Badalona, 08916, Spain. imallona@igtp.cat.
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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, Badalona, 08916, Spain.
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D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D064878:Web Browser
Data conversion; Excel; Gene symbol; Machine readability; Structured data