Irreproducible results and unsupported conclusions in Ahmad et al. [BMC genomics (2020) 21:656].

This article examines the reproducibility of a previous study on B chromosomes in three species. The authors discovered inconsistencies and errors in the original study, resulting in false positive results and unsupported claims. They stress the significance of rigorous reproducibility practices in bioinformatics analyses and propose enhancements to the review process for such studies. The article includes supplementary materials that compare the authors' analyses with those of the original study. [Extracted from the article]