Titus and Greg,
Do you have a list of these cases on the web, or is this an informal thing 
between you two? I'd be interested in seeing the list.

Best,
Joshua


> On Jan 26, 2016, at 09:36, C. Titus Brown <ctbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> for many years, Greg and I and others have been collecting "mea culpas"
> on research failures due to computational mistakes -- here's one that
> caught my eye the other day:
> 
> http://www.unz.com/gnxp/there-was-no-vast-migration-of-eurasians-into-africa/
> 
> Reads to me like a workflow system would have helped here...
> 
> This is pretty high profile; last paragraph:
> 
> If something like this happened to me I’d probably literally throw up. This
> is horrible. But then again, this paper made it into Science, and Nature wrote
> articles like this: First ancient African genome reveals vast Eurasian
> migration. The error has to be corrected.
> 
> cheers,
> --titus
> 
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