Clean the Gene Symbols

This function preprocesses a vector of gene names by cleaning and formatting them. It removes any non-alphanumeric characters after the first block of alphanumeric characters and converts the remaining characters to uppercase.

Usage

clean_gene_symbols(genes)

Arguments

genes

A character vector containing gene names to be cleaned.

Value

A character vector of cleaned gene symbols (names) with the same length as the input. The cleaned names will be in uppercase, and any invalid or empty gene names will be replaced with NA.