Monthly Archives: Aug 2016

Excel & Genes: mutation and curation

Posted on Aug 28, 2016 by Patrick O'Beirne, Excel/VBA developer

On 23 Aug a paper by three Australian authors gained much publicity about how Excel interprets data entry and how the users don’t check their data. http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature. By Mark Ziemann, Yotam … Continue reading →

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