Didi and Lyft, of course, are not strangers to that idea: they already work together, along with Ola and GrabTaxi in a cross-border consortium sharing investors, tech and general learnings on how to scale up and compete against Uber.
Fortunately, the Reactome project from the EBI consortium shares information with PID, which already imported biological data from Reactome's BioPAX2.
Yale also says the SNOC model has the advantage of letting consortium members share their specialist expertise.
Syngenta is negotiating with the rice genome consortium to share its japonica data as did Monsanto, which in 2000 prepared a rough draft of the genome and gave its data to the consortium.
But a group of ad tech startups is in the process of creating a counterweight to all the consolidation by establishing a consortium for sharing data and agreeing on standard ways to interoperate.
We thank Albert Kilian of the Malaria Consortium for sharing his model of the loss rate.
We thank members of the Bovine HapMap Consortium for sharing their samples.
The Immunochip Consortium are sharing control data that will be available for most ethnic groups; more than 20,000 white European controls are expected to be available.
The benefits of PSI-MI areption are clear, including better cooperation between public domain databases, culminating in the formation of the IMEx consortium to share the load of collecting vast amounts of interactions from the literature.
In 1997, these eight departments of family medicine formed a network for communication and consultation, FaMEC (Family Medicine Educational Consortium), to share and exchange expertise, form a core curriculum and standardize examinations and develop appropriate assessment systems (12).
