It is believed to be interested in taking a stake of up to 25% in the so far all-Italian consortium assembled by the prime minister and his advisers.
Several newcomers, such as Iridium, a consortium assembled by Motorola, have plans to switch telephone signals from one orbiting satellite to another, allowing people to make long-distance and international calls from a handset in places where local services are overpriced or non-existent.
An awkward consortium was assembled which includes IBM, China Life (the country's biggest insurance company), State Grid (an electrical utility), and Citic Trust (a government-backed holding company).
The EPR Consortium was assembled to identify important environmental response genes and design studies to test hypotheses concerning gene × environment interactions using EPR resources.
The Genome Reference Consortium has assembled a reference allele from sequencing BACs from a genomic library derived from a hydatidaform mole, which contains one copy of the CCL3L1 and CCL4L1 genes and is likely to represent the most common allele in Europeans (accession number GL383560.1).
In continuation of this P450 research, we are working with the Daphnia Genomics Consortium to assemble, annotate, and compare the CYPs in the Daphnia pulex genome with several other species.
Celera made no secret of the fact that, to save time and money, it downloaded the consortium's partially assembled data, which was publicly available.
The consortium of shareholders assembled to develop it – the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Arqiva, plus internet service providers BT and TalkTalk – found it hard to agree.
Earlier this year, a compromise between the RIAA and a hastily assembled consortium of net music companies — collectively known as the Digital Music Association, or DiMA — staved off a clash over restrictions the RIAA was hoping to build into the language of the global copyright protection legislation known as the WIPO treaty.
Rather, a small network or consortium should be assembled to produce each reference material to ensure continuity should a business fail or stop production.
Molecular genetic studies of SLI have been conducted by the SLI Consortium (SLIC), who assembled a large group of families affected by SLI from both epidemiological and clinical samples.
