"We are highly skeptical that an agreement focused on regulatory harmonization' will serve consumer interests, workers' rights, the environment, and other areas of public interest," said a large coalition of American and European consumer groups in a statement.
Numerous global initiatives in Africa have focused on clinical laboratory harmonization and standardization [ 3], and on laboratory accreditation [ 4].
The first use case in this article focuses on metadata harmonization and describes how to understand the source data.
To date there have only been a few controlled studies focused on the automated annotation and/or harmonization of phenotype concepts in the scientific literature (13 15).
Extensive meetings between the leaders of the contributing studies have focused on effective ways to harmonize the available variables across the studies (see "Data Harmonization" below) to minimize heterogeneity across the resulting analyses.
DataSHaPER is focused on developing tools for retrospective data harmonization (26).
Moreover, the IRIS trial and IS harmonization effort exclusively focused on the BCR ABL1 fusion transcripts resulting from the major break point (e13a2 and e14a2, also named b2a2 and b3a2 in this manuscript).
In addition to instituting a regional Free Trade Area in 2008, the SADC has focused on macro-economic policy stability and harmonization among member countries, which also serves to make the region more attractive to extra-regional trade and investment (29, 39).
Recently, there has been an increasing focus on harmonization of the cancer and noncancer risk assessment approaches used by regulatory agencies.
The Integrated Analysis of Longitudinal Studies of Aging collaboration focuses on data harmonization and reproducibility of research from international longitudinal studies focused on aging and health-related change in cognition, health, and well-being [ 70].
