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Excel is a generic spreadsheet program that's designed to be used by 90% of people for 90% of use cases. Accommodating for this niche use case will definitely b
by sxg 4y ago
Excel is a generic spreadsheet program that's designed to be used by 90% of people for 90% of use cases. Accommodating for this niche use case will definitely break things for many existing users. The real solution is for geneticists (and other data scientists) to use software designed more specifically for their use cases, such as CSV files and pandas or something more GUI-based but meant for researchers.
- tinus_hn 4y agoCSV files are unsuitable for any serious use and especially not a ‘better replacement for Excel files’. It’s an ill defined, locale dependent format of fail.
- sideshowb 4y ago"Not mangling stuff the user types in", yes, very niche requirement that, highly unlikely to benefit anyone but geneticists /s ;-)
- dan-robertson 4y agoI thought the real solution we got was to rename genes. Maybe only some were renamed.