Excel Genes

[aubreybailey]

From our good friends at Harvard

We noticed the .xlsx version of your cancer gene list at http://www.bushmanlab.org/links/genelists contains some "excel genes", i.e. gene names like MARCH3 and SEPT6 that got automatically converted to dates. To fix it, you can re-open the .tsv file and manually set the gene name column to text in the wizard, then re-save as .xlsx. For some reason, you must open it from within Excel, not by double-clicking on the file, or you won't get the wizard where you can set the column type.

More information here:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/5/80

http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/gene-name-errors-and-excel-lessons-not-learned/

please and thank you,
Aubrey