The Excel contagion

The tale of 16,000 genes. For a recent analysis, I wanted to compile all the gene names of variants that were found in 12 of our EuroEPINOMICS research patients. Since I was planning to do some statistical analysis as well, I used the R package for this, my personal favourite for all kinds of statistics. I also have  weak spot for Minitab and never got along with SPSS, but that is a different story. After I filtered and sorted the genes alphabetically, the following picture made me smile and gave me a reason to write a bit about role of Microsoft Excel for exome analysis…

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