TIL 1 in 5 genetics research papers have errors due to auto-formatting in Microsoft Excel User germz80, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 26 Jan 2020
TIL 20% of scientific papers on genes contain conversion errors caused by Excel. The problem is that Excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers. User speckz, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 27 Oct 2016
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature | Genome Biology User Ginkgopsida, in the Systems biology subreddit, 26 Aug 2016
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature | Genome Biology User Ginkgopsida, in the genomics subreddit, 26 Aug 2016