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Introduction
MacAlias is a Macintosh native OSX program for curating gene-protein
nomenclature databases. MacAlias requires OSX version 10.1.5 to run. MacAlias
allows you to read medical literature abstracts in plaintext or embedded-markup
format, and to create and edit a set of notes for each abstract. You can read
protein and gene symbol/name database files ('aliases'), and files which link
protein and gene symbols together. You can search for proteins and genes from
text contained in abstracts, or from user-entered strings. You can see which
proteins or genes have multiple symbols and entries in the database. Finally,
you can edit the database of protein symbols and names, and save it to another
file for further use. This allows you to continually update, or 'curate',
databases of protein symbols and names based on new medical abstracts appearing
in the literature, or to maintain separate databases based on taxonomy, medical
function, or any other criterion.
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