一項(xiàng)新的研究表明，發(fā)表的基因組研究錯(cuò)誤很大程度是因?yàn)槲④汦xcel的一個(gè)問(wèn)題。在澳大利亞的一個(gè)三人組對(duì)過(guò)去10年的時(shí)間里，掃描了18種期刊中的3600篇論文的7500份基因列表文件，發(fā)現(xiàn)有五分之一的文件存在基因書(shū)寫錯(cuò)誤。
A new paper has revealed the vast extent of errors in published genomics research, which is down to an unfortunate quirk of Microsoft Excel. A trio of scientists in Australia scanned 7,500 Excel files with gene lists accompanying 3,600 papers in 18 journals over a 10-year period. One-fifth of the files had easily identified errors, which is “quite striking and a little bit embarrassing,” says Mark Ziemann of the Baker IDI medical research institute in Melbourne, one of the paper’s co-authors.
比如基因“Membrane-Associated Ring Finger (C3HC4) 1, E3 Ubiquitin Protein Ligase,” 縮寫為“MARCH1”，Excel表就會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)換為日期“03/01/2016”。而基因如“2310009E13”則會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)換為對(duì)數(shù)(2.31E+19)。
Years of genomics research is riddled with errors thanks to a bunch of botched Excel spreadsheets
基因組學(xué)研究者注意了！用Excel對(duì)基因列表可能產(chǎn)生錯(cuò)誤 |
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