A third of all genetics papers published in Nature over a decade (and 20% across all journals) had errors due to the fact that many genes have names like SEPT2 (the official name of Septin 2), which were automatically coded as dates by Microsoft Excel. https://twitter.com/kgong/status/1370616101474758657

Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21...sreading-dates