[otherme123]

A lot of scientists are very bright people that can't invest the time to learn another tool that maybe is worse than Excel (e.g. Google Docs also does the gene-to-date swapping, try writting "SEPT2", the known gene [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPT2] in a cell), investing time and effort in changing pipelines that work for them.

Instead, the path of least resistance is to change the name of all known genes that cause problems with Excel. Biologist are changing and adding names all the time, so it's not like this is new. E.g. https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q04609/entry#names_and_tax... shows you a gene with 5 names.

[n4r9]

When I had this issue, the path of least resistance was to use Libre Office Calc. Of course, that's exactly the kind of application that my company now wants to remove from all systems for compliance with something called "Cyber Essentials".

[cqqxo4zV46cp]

You’ve answered your own question then.

[n4r9]

Sorry, which question do you mean?