At least you need to be very careful with them: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.c

At least you need to be very careful with them: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13... 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."