I've seen bio data get messed up just by one person opening a csv in excel: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 https://g

I've seen bio data get messed up just by one person opening a csv in excel: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13... I mean not even editing anything, just opened the file to look at it and then allowed saving the file on close. But yea, your typcial bio analysis is a lot of clicking around in one peice of software, importing that output into the next software, etc and is totally unreproducible. Then in the end you get an average and standard deviation (at least its not usually only p-values anymore) but no one ever checked what the underlying data looked like. "Is your standard deviation for Group X so large because of low outliers, high outliers or is it a multimodal distribution?" "No idea. Whats a distribution?"