Ziemann Mark, Eren Yotam, El-Osta Assam
Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia.
Faculty of Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.
Genome Biol. 2016 Aug 23;17(1):177. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7.
The spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers. A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions.
据了解，电子表格软件Microsoft Excel在使用默认设置时，会将基因名称转换为日期和浮点数。对主要基因组学期刊进行的编程扫描显示，在附有补充Excel基因列表的论文中，约有五分之一包含错误的基因名称转换。
