The year is 2004. Zeeberg et al warn using spreadsheets to analyse microarray data causes gene name errors.

The year is 2016. My team warns using spreadsheets to analyse RNA-seq data causes gene name errors.

The year is 2021. My team warns that the spreadsheet problem is actually worse than we estimated before.

The year is 2026, many "high impact" journal articles doing expensive single cell sequencing have gene name errors among other statistical flaws.

Sigh.

#Genomics #Bioinformatics

@mdziemann especially as there is a tool specifically designed to work just as easily and better: https://datavzrd.github.io/
Datavzrd