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The article is so annoying! I am pretty damn sure excel doesn't intentionally have any gene-renaming features, nor even has any concept of gene. So what are t
by dzdt 10y ago
The article is so annoying! I am pretty damn sure excel doesn't intentionally have any gene-renaming features, nor even has any concept of gene. So what are the scientists doing? Forgetting to put quotes on some data that is gene-names, and having it interpretted as function names or dates or something?
- sp332 10y agoYes. By default, if you type SEPT2 into a cell, Excel will store it as a date type and change the text representation to 2-Sep. The article is slightly wrong, and I think the paper itself gives a good summary at the top. http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s130...