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Check nomenclature #629

Open rando2 opened 4 years ago

rando2 commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. One piece of clean-up that needs to happen is that all of the abbreviations need to be checked for consistency throughout the manuscript.

Describe the solution you'd like My plan is to use ctrl-f and/or regex, as well as spend a final read-through manually confirming these are ok.

Describe alternatives you've considered We can keep trying to fix them as things merge in, but with the text still changing, I'm not sure how reliable this strategy is.

Additional context Some terminology likely to have issues -- that I will add to as I become suspicious-- is:

lubianat commented 3 years ago

@rando2 RT-PCR / qRT-PCR nomenclature also needs checking. Ex: "Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) " in 4.1.1 RT-PCR is a common mistake, as RT usually refers to retro transcription.

Maybe avoiding "real time", and always using "quantitative" is the most unambiguous way

lubianat commented 3 years ago

I think that all mentions of RT-PCR in the text are actually of qRT-PCR, by the way

rando2 commented 3 years ago

Thank you so much @lubianat! I will make sure these are fixed!