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Introduction to Computational Reproducibility (and why we care)
- nl 5y agoThis was new to me: > In genomics, researchers estimate that 1 out of 5 publications using Excel for gene lists contain errors. The problem here is that Excel automatically converts some gene names to other formats, like dates or floating point numbers. > the gene SEPT2 (Septin 2) gets converted to the date 2-Sept, and the identifier ‘2310009E13’ gets converted to a floating-point number of order 10 to the 13th power.