Kyle Copas Manager   •   almost 9 years ago

Data harvester, beware...

The Washington Post reports on a research in Genome Biology (http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7), which found that 20 percent of the supplementary materials in 3,600 genetics papers containing preventable errors introduced by Excel:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors