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Biology changed gene naming because of this...

@atheist this true?

@MammaNeedHummus there is a gene that used to be called Mar25, it has a new gene alias (I don't know the new one), but it still shows up in papers and stuff, like on this page:
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/...

Guess what happens if you put "Mar25" into a spreadsheet... I work in a biotech, our search interface has to support these gene aliases. This has caused quite a few problems.

Anyway, this is an article about it https://theverge.com/2020/8/...

Also, you'd think gene aliases would just mean one gene can have two names but nooooo... One gene may be aliased by another name, but the other name may refer to a larger bit of DNA so it's not always a bidirectional relationship...

Anyway... Design meeting flashback over...