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Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics

Barry R Zeeberg* 1 email, Joseph Riss* 2 email, David W Kane3 email, Kimberly J Bussey1 email, Edward Uchio4 email, W Marston Linehan4 email, J Carl Barrett2 email and John N Weinstein1 email

1Genomics & Bioinformatics Group, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bldg 37 Rm 5041, NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

2Laboratory of Biosystems and Cancer, CCR, Bldg 37 Rm 5032, NIH, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

3SRA International, 4300 Fair Lakes CT, Fairfax, VA 22033 USA

4Urologic Oncology Branch, Bldg 10 Rm 2B47, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:80doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-80

Published: 23 June 2004

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Symbol Mutation Scan: Shell file in downloadable format Companion Website: http://discover.nci.nih.gov/symbolmutation webcite

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