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Good initiative, but there are hundreds of used languages, I hope they put a bit more effort into it than just testing the English dates cases. I caught one bad
by loufe 5y ago
Good initiative, but there are hundreds of used languages, I hope they put a bit more effort into it than just testing the English dates cases. I caught one bad example, for any French speakers, in the article itself:
and MARS tweaked to MARS1.
- joshvm 5y agoPlenty of gene names are partial/full backronyms that don't really bear any relation to their function. For example the R in MARCH stands for "RING Finger", RING means "Really Interesting New Gene" [0]; finger here is some substructure that I guess looks superficially like a finger on the protein. That's an astronomy-worthy acronym if ever there was one. You could probably avoid a lot of this if the naming conventions avoided using protected words, but then they're a lot less catchy and easy to remember. Also I don't think Excel has a list, but it might be useful to make one. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24928685/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24928685/