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Humanity renamed genes because of Excel

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Post by kegenaar » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 12:15 PM UTC

Re: Humanity renamed genes because of Excel

Post by horticulturist » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

Pretty sure this happens in every field. Opening any sufficiently detailed tabular file with Excel almost guarantees data loss.

Post by baldeagle » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 5:37 PM UTC

To be fair, humanity named those genes in the first place. They are now just named more robustly