Hi, suppose I have a list of gene names like below, is there a "fuzzy"-matching based algorithm to convert gene name to locuslink id's? > head(anno[,4]) [1] Comp Rheb Ctsj Fgf18 Homer1 Ggtla1 Thanks -- Weiwei Shi, Ph.D Research Scientist GeneGO, Inc. "Did you always know?" "No, I did not. But I believed..." ---Matrix III

Weiwei Shi wrote: > Hi, > > suppose I have a list of gene names like below, is there a > "fuzzy"-matching based algorithm to convert gene name to locuslink > id's? > > >> head(anno[,4]) >> > [1] Comp Rheb Ctsj Fgf18 Homer1 Ggtla1 > Weiwei, You can grep on the Synonyms and Symbol columns from gene_info file located here: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/gene/DATA/ Read the README file for more details. Sean