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James VanEe, IT Director
Institute of Biotechnology
Biotechnology Resource Center
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http://www.biotech.cornell.edu/brc/bio-it
http://www.abrf.org
On 8/24/16, 2:24 PM, "ABRF IT Discussion Forum on behalf of Frances
Weis-Garcia" <email obscured> on behalf of
<email obscured>> wrote:
>Sigh ... mind if I share this on the ABRF FB / LinkedIn / Twitter
>accounts? I am more than happy if you want to share it, especially since
>you found it ... just want to get it out to the community ...
>
>On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 2:20 PM, James I. Vanee <email obscured>> wrote:
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>> I thought that this list was an appropriate place to share...
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>> On 8/24/16, 2:17 PM, <email obscured> on
>> behalf of Keith Jenkins" <email obscured> on
>> behalf of <email obscured>> wrote:
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>> >Yet another reason to avoid using Excel...
>> >
>> >Keith
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>> >
>> >Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
>> >http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
>> >
>> >ABSTRACT:
>> >"The spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel, when used with default
>> >settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point
>> >numbers. A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that
>> >approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists
>> >contain erroneous gene name conversions."
>> >
>> >Data Discussion Group wiki:
>> > https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/culddg/Home
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