Introduction
When you combine datasets, run downstream analyses, or visualize results, you almost always need your genes in a single, consistent identifier system (e.g., Ensembl IDs or Entrez IDs). Unfortunately, public resources and pipelines use many different “names” for the same gene: Ensembl stable IDs, Entrez Gene IDs, HGNC symbols, UniProt accessions, microarray probe IDs, etc.
g:Profiler (g:Convert) solves this by providing a central, regularly updated service that translates gene identifiers across dozens of namespaces for hundreds of organisms. The task below wraps g:Convert to give you a simple, reproducible way to normalize your IDs from a table.
Steps
This task (task: OmiX – Gene_ID_conversion ) performs identifier harmonization on a user-provided list of gene IDs. It uses the g:Profiler g:Convert service to translate input identifiers (e.g., gene symbols, Ensembl IDs, Entrez IDs, UniProt accessions) into a selected target namespace. Unlike manual mapping or static resources, g:Convert queries a continuously updated central database, ensuring that results reflect the latest stable identifiers and gene annotations.
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