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Re:Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreadi... by mcv on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:52AM (#30988686)
But this is also a problem with using Excel for this. Let two other people edit it, and now you've got 3 different versions of the data. Which one is correct?

Having a single database and giving two other people access to it keeps the data centralised and keeps a single source of truth.

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