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MatchMiner: a tool for batch navigation among gene and gene product identifiers

Kimberly J Bussey1, David Kane2, Margot Sunshine2, Sudar Narasimhan2, Satoshi Nishizuka1, William C Reinhold1, Barry Zeeberg1, Ajay3 and John N Weinstein1*

Author Affiliations

1 Genomics and Bioinformatics Group, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH Building 37, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA

2 SRA International Inc., 4300 Fair Lakes CT, Fairfax, VA 22033, USA

3 Current address: Celera Genomics, 45 West Gude Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA

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Genome Biology 2003, 4:R27 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-4-r27

Published: 25 March 2003

Abstract

MatchMiner is a freely available program package for batch navigation among gene and gene product identifier types commonly encountered in microarray studies and other forms of 'omic' research. The user inputs a list of gene identifiers and then uses the Merge function to find the overlap with a second list of identifiers of either the same or a different type or uses the LookUp function to find corresponding identifiers.