By providing a repo with raw data, and the code that runs on it that eventually produces the results that are in the manuscript. Anything else is just a bunch o

By providing a repo with raw data, and the code that runs on it that eventually produces the results that are in the manuscript. Anything else is just a bunch of handwaving. It's not coincidental that big evil FDA/pharma requires people to sign - on paper - their lab notes (and to have lab notes, and to sign that they calibrated the equipment, and that they checked for common mistakes). And yes, I know this costs a lot, and that this is sort of a pipe dream. And I'm not saying this is the best solution. Renaming genes might be a lot better, because it just allows the field to move on, and Excel will eventually die out, or at least researchers will move away from it - maybe to Jupyter, if we're lucky. So, all in all, of course Excel is just a symptom, but society is already pretty stubborn when it comes to financing R&D and progress.