http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...20_percent_of_scientific_papers_on_genes.html
paper: http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
© The Author(s). 2016
Published: 23 August 2016
One mistaken gene conversion for example turns the gene symbol SEPT2, short for Septin 2, to “2-Sep.” Likewise, MARCH1—aka Membrane-Associated Ring Finger (C3HC4) 1, E3 Ubiquitin Protein Ligase—is rendered as “1-Mar.” The scientists wrote: “Furthermore, RIKEN identifiers were described to be automatically converted to floating point numbers (i.e. from accession ‘2310009E13’ to ‘2.31E+13’).”
The conversion takes place without the researcher noticing and culminates in research papers with errors in their supplementary files, sometimes contributing to unverifiable data or errors in subsequent calculations.
paper: http://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature
- Mark Ziemann,
- Yotam Eren and
- Assam El-OstaEmail author
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-1044-7
© The Author(s). 2016
Published: 23 August 2016