Re:“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”
by iSnow on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:15PM
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The worst I have seen was a systems biologist flipping between Excel cells with the arrow keys and staring at the Excel input line to find out if sequences are different. My jaw dropped.
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Re:“You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”
by mnw21cam on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:45PM
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There is the story of course of the years of research that were destroyed because some particular gene names looked suspiciously like dates to Excel.
Yes, I was working on a bioinformatics data warehouse a while back. Yes, we did have to write an import filter to extract data from Excel files.