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Trust no-one: errors and irreproducibility in public data

Just when I was beginning to despair at the state of publicly-available microarray data, someone sent me an article which…increased my despair. The article is: Deriving chemosensitivity from cell...

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Fixed that for you

A comprehensive framework for prioritizing variants in exome sequencing studies of Mendelian diseases. Why not also highlight the key genes by colouring cells in red? You’re welcome. Filed under:...

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We really don’t care what statistical method you used

Update: as pointed out in the comments, the amusing error in this article has been “corrected” (or at least, “edited away”). Thanks for your interest. Update: I note that this article is now “Highly...

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Gene name errors and Excel: lessons not learned

June 23, 2004. BMC Bioinformatics publishes “Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics”. We roll our eyes. Do people really do that? Is...

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Oops: taxonomy #fail

My journey from bench scientist to bioinformatician began with archaeal genomes. So I was somewhat startled to read The catalytic mechanism for aerobic formation of methane by bacteria, in which we...

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