This can be especially useful if collaborators are not likely to know one another, their educational or professional backgrounds, the kinds of projects they have worked on in the past, or the other individuals they collaborated with.
Created by EMBO in February 2004, the consultancy offers a series of searchable databases pointing European life scientists to sources of funding, training, jobs, and possible collaborators, useful for those wanting to stay put as well as those on the move.
(GP #7) The GPs that attended usually found meetings with collaborators useful, despite the fact that most of these meetings dealt with issues far from the GPs' areas of expertise.
Stephen Sondheim once gave James Lapine, his friend and longtime collaborator, a useful if inadvertent piece of advice.
This would be especially useful for long-distance collaborators.
We acknowledge many colleagues and collaborators for useful discussions over this last decade.
We also thank our collaborator John Ioannidis for useful discussion and advice regarding our genomic pathway approach.
Over the years, he and his collaborators have developed "several useful concepts and computational techniques, including the theory of physiologic complexity, and proposed the concept of dynamical biomarkers that can be utilized for disease diagnosis.
Meetings, software demos, training sessions and video conferences are organized to maintain the communication between collaborators and ensure a useful evolution of the software.
