An equally important advantage of an RDB is that it imposes a consistent data format on applications that generate and analyze data.
Among other targets, the ESPAS study will provide a consistent data format which allows all of these different data types to be used interactively.
This package supports consistent data formats.
Potential downsides of IPD meta-analyses are that they are resource intensive and require substantial time to identify and obtain original data, clarify data-related issues with data providers, and generate a consistent data format across studies.
These challenges included 1) maintaining consistent quality despite the diversity in annotation expertise in the community, 2) maintaining consistent data formats and 3) minimizing the potential for duplicate annotations.
We were faced with several challenges, including the need to maintain consistent quality despite diversity in annotation expertise in the research community, the need to maintain consistent data formats, and the need to minimize the potential duplication of annotation effort.
In the 1990s, the IRS and state tax authorities worked together to create consistent data fields and formats for individual tax returns.
The Financial Transparency Act requires each of the nine main financial regulators to adopt consistent data fields and formats for the information they are collecting under existing laws.
If the regulators adopted consistent data fields and formats for the information they already collect, instead of using PDF documents, they would have a better chance of catching fraudsters like Bernie Madoff and would make better decisions in crises.
We accomplished in IntPath the integration of pathway-gene and pathway-gene pair relationships, achieving compatible data formats, consistent molecular representations, consistent relationship representations, consistent referrals to pathway names and comprehensive data.
