Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research.

Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research. We surveyed more than 10,000 papers with Excel gene lists published ...

Our research shows autocorrect errors, particularly in Excel spreadsheets, can also make a mess of gene names in genetic research. We surveyed more than 10,000 papers with Excel gene lists published ...

And in August, researchers announced that they’d changed the names of 27 genes over the last year because Excel was continuously recognizing the old names as dates.

Millions of Excel spreadsheets are used in medicine, science, economics, and finance. Yet up to 90 percent have serious -- even life threatening -- errors. Here's what you need to know and how ...

Microsoft's Excel has been blamed for errors in academic papers on genomics. Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names ...

Excel Sheets Altering Human Gene Names Scientists who use Excel to track their research had to rename 27 genes in early August because the program continuously got confused.