Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature

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 na...

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Autores principales: Ziemann, Mark, Eren, Yotam, El-Osta, Assam
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27552985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
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description 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. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-49942892016-08-24 Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature Ziemann, Mark Eren, Yotam El-Osta, Assam Genome Biol Comment 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. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4994289/ /pubmed/27552985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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