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Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature (2016)
- RocketSyntax 7y agoOoo not good because researchers are using doing site wide paper scans and NLP with genes as major keywords
- mnw21cam 7y ago[2016] Actually, I remember discussing this with colleagues back in 2006. Also, the Hugo Gene Nomenclature Committee have been quietly going around changing some of the worst offending gene names.
- wrs 7y agoThis is a drag on international productivity. I see this all the time with Excel sheets made with data from various business processes (invoice numbers, ID strings, etc.). I can’t believe Excel doesn’t have a switch for “please don’t maim my data” in 2019, but I can’t find it.
- dpatrick86 7y agoAllele misassignment is another rampant issue. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154681?dopt=Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154681?dopt=Abstract
- dang 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18165218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18165218 was 11 months ago, making this one a dupe (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Also discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12349391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12349391