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 ...

The automatic conversion function of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software, automatically converts some inputs, such as numbers and dates, into specific types of data. Although this feature is ...

As many as 20 per cent of science papers on the subject of gene research have been affected by errors caused by Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet. According to the report published in BioMed Central, the ...