Open dburkhardt opened 5 years ago
Just so I understand the use case here, you have:
data
with column names gene_list
my_list
and you want to know the closest string match(es) in gene_list
of each value of my_list
?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/10018734/3996580 might be a valid direction to take this.
Need to think about this more, but say I have a gene list from a collaborator and some are correct gene symbols, but others aren't, I currently do this:
Would be nice to have a helper function here