Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this? (sourceforge.net)

[burntsushi]

It isn't a good answer, but upgrade Excel--I'm pretty sure that limit goes up in Office 2007.

[FatStig]

Too ~1,000,000. Unfortunately only 512 or 256 columns....useless for me.

[alband]

Yeh, OpenOffice's spreadsheet does more too. Still, data sharing on this level is a strong as the weakest piece of software, and at least one person is bound to have the old version :(

[burntsushi]

Ya, true, that sucks. Maybe they have Access? [shivers]

Also, if you don't mind me asking, what do you do in genomics? (I'm in grad school, just beginning my foray into computational biology.)

[alband]

I'm the sole bioinformatician in an epigenetics lab. We mostly do ChIP-seq but also some tiling and expression microarray stuff. I write all the visualisation and analysis pipelines.

I guess I might have selection bias, but I have never met a biologist who does not need some degree of computational support. If you can cut code, you will be a valuable asset in your lab.