Fig. 1

Data flow and usage example. a, Truke data flow. b, tabular data with the corrupted (left) and fixed (right) gene symbols. Data corresponds to the Ziemann’s [2] meta-analysis (Additional file 1) and was processed as if formatted by mm/dd/yyyy. Rows 1,6 and 13 exemplify dates which are not recoverable. Rows 3-5,7 and 10-12 depict dates which map to different gene symbols and therefore require further manual parsing. Rows 8, 9, 14 and 15 are unambiguous fixes