Dear Dan, To convert aliases to official symbols limma::alias2Symbol Misspellings will fail however. Best wishes Gordon > Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:52:07 +0100 > From: Daniel Brewer <daniel.brewer at="" icr.ac.uk=""> > Subject: [BioC] How to check if gene name is an alias or misspelt > To: Bioconductor mailing list <bioconductor at="" stat.math.ethz.ch=""> > Message-ID: <49DCAC07.6010804 at icr.ac.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello, > > I have a list of genes which are not official gene symbols. Normally in > this case I would search gene in entrez to see if it is an alias and > then take the official symbol. Is there a way to (semi) automate this > within bioconductor? > > If this fails I normally google it to see if it is likely to be a > misspelling S instead of 5 etc. ANy suggestions for that? > > Many thanks > > Dan > > -- > ************************************************************** > Daniel Brewer, Ph.D. > > Institute of Cancer Research > Molecular Carcinogenesis > Email: daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk > ************************************************************** > > The Institute of Cancer Research: Royal Cancer Hospital, a charitable > Company Limited by Guarantee, Registered in England under Company No. > 534147 with its Registered Office at 123 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 > 3RP. > > This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the...{{dropped:2}}