On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Brewer <daniel.brewer@icr.ac.uk>wrote:

> 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?
>

It is often a good idea to check the annotation packages for this type of
thing.  For the org.XX.eg.db (XX represents the organism of interest)
packages, there is the org.XX.egALIAS2EG table that maps aliases to entrez
gene.

Sean

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