The first such initiative is ESPAS, a consortium of European Space Weather data providers, spanning radars, scintillation studies, magnetic field measurements, and a wide range of other techniques (see Fig. 29).
The second release will also contain distances and motions for all 1.1 billion stars, says astronomer Anthony Brown of Leiden University in the Netherlands, who chairs a 450-member consortium of Gaia data analysts.
S. Eventually is already here, and unless the incumbent telcos get with the program, and fast, they are likely to see themselves outflanked by a loose consortium of business data service providers and gear makers who refuse to be slowed by endless standards meetings.
To further examine this discrepancy, we searched the connectivity map (Lamb et al, 2006), a consortium of microarray data, and identified 12 microarray datasets from cells treated by HDAC inhibitors.
The consortium's set of data is expected to triple over the next two years, and the trickle of results should turn into a flood.
ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com : A consortium of clinical study data providers that facilitates access to patient-level data from clinical studies.
Peer co-founded Curation for Reproducibility (CURE), a consortium of social science data archives at Yale, Cornell, and the University of North Carolina, promoting practices that facilitate the digital preservation of the evidence base necessary for future understanding, evaluation, and reproducibility of scientific claims.
The consortium of safe labour data [ 41] are now accepted and has been highlighted by the American college of obstetricians and gynecologist to revise definitions of normal labour progress and to introduce new guidelines for evidence based labour care.
The authors would like to thank the 1000 Genomes Consortium for the availability of data, and in particular Dr. L. Clarke for useful explanations.
Recently, the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) consortium addressed the reliability of data obtained using microarrays, by directly comparing performance across multiple platforms, test sites and replicates [ 19].
