[Bioc-devel] GenomeGraphs: makeIdeogram and Ideogram class spelling error

[Diego Diez]

I should have check this in more detail before spamming the bioc-devel list.

Although I cannot find ideogram as a chromosome representation in the
merriam webster dictionary (but I can find idiogram in the medical
version), there is actually a link from the ideogram entry in
wikipedia to Cytogenetic ideograms. Also from the idiogram entry
though. And at least I found also a link to a Nature education entry
where they use the term idiogram instead of ideogram:

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Chromosome-Mapping-Idiograms-302

however a search in google for "chromosome ideogram" returns a lot of
hits that look trustworthy.

Can somebody with more knowledge than me put some light into this?

Best,
Diego.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Diego Diez <diez at kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like make note of an spelling error I found in the package
> GenomeGraphs. The issue is similar to that found and fixed some time
> ago for the 'idiogram' package (formerly known as 'ideogram'). See the
> following post:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2006-March/000433.html
>
> As a non-English native speaker myself, I feel a little bit
> embarrassed for pointing this out. But since this package has been
> around for a while and the development version has the same problem...
> well someone has to say it. Anyway, the problem affects to my
> knowledge the class and method definitions as well as the dataset
> 'ideogram.rda' found in the data directory.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Diego.
>
> --
> Diego Diez, Ph
> Bioinformatics center,
> Institute for Chemical Research,
> Kyoto University.
> Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011 JAPAN
> diez at kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>



-- 
Diego Diez, Ph
Bioinformatics center,
Institute for Chemical Research,
Kyoto University.
Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011 JAPAN
diez at kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp