Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature

Mark Ziemann; Yotam Eren; Assam El-Osta

doi:10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7

Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature

Mark Ziemann, Yotam Eren, Assam El-Osta

Medicine Alfred Hospital

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	177
Journal	Genome Biology
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
Publication status	Published - 23 Aug 2016

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Gene symbol
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