This geneticist thing is a complete misunderstanding. Excel is tuned to autoconvert things that look like dates to dates. Best would be to be able to disable this, but Microsoft research shows that more users need it.
Meanwhile scientists use Excel for lots of stuff.. since it works. It has a not nice "feature" of those conversions.
So option 1) throw away the tool you use every day 2) change the gene name
Option 2 makes sense, although everyone would be more happy if Microsoft gave an option to toggle that auto-conversion off [there is option to properly load CSV files but people dont use it, since it takes more time...]
Meanwhile scientists use Excel for lots of stuff.. since it works. It has a not nice "feature" of those conversions.
So option 1) throw away the tool you use every day 2) change the gene name
Option 2 makes sense, although everyone would be more happy if Microsoft gave an option to toggle that auto-conversion off [there is option to properly load CSV files but people dont use it, since it takes more time...]