I, admittedly, do not write scientific papers, but when I read that 20% of all genetic scientific papers include erroneous data due to Excel conversion errors I was taken aback. Not because there were ...

Microsoft has announced changes to an Excel feature that has become infamous for introducing errors into research data and disrupting the work of geneticists—users will now be able to easily disable ...

Q: I found an anomaly with a rather simple Excel computation; specifically, Excel calculates 111,111,111 times 111,111,111 to equal 12,345,678,987,654,300, which is ...

Microsoft's Excel has been blamed for errors in academic papers on genomics. Researchers trying to raise awareness of the issue claim that the spreadsheet software automatically converts the names of ...