The author is exactly right about the quality of data in bioinformatics. There are datasets with genes named MAR1, DEC1, etc. getting mangled to 1-Mar, 1-Dec, b

The author is exactly right about the quality of data in bioinformatics. There are datasets with genes named MAR1, DEC1, etc. getting mangled to 1-Mar, 1-Dec, because of Microsoft Excel autoformatting. http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/gene-name-errors-and-excel-lessons-not-learned/ http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/gene-name-errors-a...