I was going to post that article too, but I dug into it (read the paper), and 
it is really just conversion of gene names (like SEPT5) in supplementary files. 
That was reported long ago as affecting some quantifications, but I would call 
it analytical errors as we have seen in the past. A bit of a tempest in a 
teapot, perhaps. 

Ironic twist, the paper provides a supplementary file listing all the gene-name 
errors they found, posted as an Excel file. 

-Steve

> On Aug 26, 2016, at 14:26 , Maxime Boissonneault 
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> Hi everyone,
> Some interesting content to use about how to not do science correctly with a 
> computer....
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/26/an-alarming-number-of-scientific-papers-contain-excel-errors/
> 
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