August 12, 2020
Scientists had to rename a lot of genes, which confounded Microsoft Excel
shaoran2012As shown, familiar to all Microsoft Excel is a serious headache for geneticists. The fact is that many of the genes are remarkably similar to the calendar date that Excel willingly and without asking puts in its own format. And since Microsoft, for obvious reasons, not going to upgrade their product specifically for the needs of geneticists, scientists had to rename 27 human genes (for example, MARCH1). The work took about a year and recently in the scientific community was published the memo on the new names. Excel is an […]