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The error made in 20% of papers on genes …

Posted on September 23, 2016 by dougaj4

… and how to avoid it. According to a recent scientific paper “Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature” (authors: Mark Ziemann, Yotam Eren1, and Assam El-Osta).  The paper says that “approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene … Continue reading →

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Dealing with dates 3: opening and saving csv files without data corruption

Posted on June 11, 2015 by dougaj4

This post makes use of a spreadsheet for reading data from text files, including comma separated value (csv) files.  The latest version includes a routine for saving the imported data in csv format.  It can be downloaded (including full open-source … Continue reading →

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Daily Download 32: Text functions

Posted on October 20, 2012 by dougaj4

Today’s daily download covers functions to import data from text files into Excel quickly and efficiently, a function to combine text strings, with improved functionality over the built-in Concatenate function, and functions to extract numbers from the beginning or end … Continue reading →

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Importing tab delimited files and clearing large ranges

Posted on March 1, 2009 by dougaj4

Wray Sisk commented on Importing text files with VBA – 3, asking if it could be modified to read tab delimited files. It could be, and has been; download here: Text-in2.ZIP It turned out to be a simple task; just … Continue reading →

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Importing text files with VBA – 3

Posted on June 27, 2008 by dougaj4

The text import file has been modified to split large files into one or more ranges. The maximum number of rows for each range is specified, together with a sufficient number of valid range names, which may be on the … Continue reading →

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