Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the genome institute at the National Institutes of Health, said yesterday that the initiative for the Mouse Sequencing Consortium came from SmithKline Beecham.
If any one of the publishers doesn't like the e-reader standards the consortium comes up with or the storefront, there is nothing stopping it from simply going its own way.
The deal, which has not yet been completed, was made under duress: the foreign consortium came under strong pressure from the federal authorities over huge cost overruns and crucially from Mr Mitvol's agency over alleged environmental violations.
Most of the consortium's DNA comes from a single man, but 12 men and women of different ethnic backgrounds have also contributed DNA.
The Kent football club was days from folding when the Kuwaiti consortium came to its rescue.
The consortium came together through a fortuitous set of circumstances.
Funding for the revitalised project comes from a consortium of Malaysian businesses including Proton, which owns the Lotus Cars organisation, still based at Hethel in Norfolk.
The investment comes from a consortium of private Swiss investors and well-known German tech investor Peter Zencke, a former SAP executive board member and head of research and development.
Each comes from a corporate consortium of hardware, software and cellular companies, but the crucial players are Microsoft, Kyocera, Handspring and a start-up company called Danger.
"The rest [of the weed in Australia] generally comes from larger criminal consortiums, who'll gladly employ kidnap and torture in the course of their business," he said.
