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 ...

While Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are commonly used to record research and create relevant databases, a default setting in the software that automatically changes inputs to dates and other numbers ...