A huge consortium of scientists has spent the last six years sifting through this supposed garbage tip of DNA and now the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) project is starting to find the vast number of tiny flecks of gold and gemstone fragments that account for the overwhelming richness of the human organism.
An advisory group today offered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) some suggestions for how to frame metrics for evaluating its vast $475 million consortium of translational research centers—such as the need to define what it takes to be a translational scientist.
CERN is a vast interdisciplinary, multi-country consortium to solve particular scientific problems, maybe we need the same thing for AI.
It is currently leading a consortium to develop the vast Bishopsgate goods yard, mostly owned by the rail industry, just north of Spitalfields.
The program, created in secrecy by the Bush administration after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has allowed American counterterrorism officials to examine banking transactions routed through a vast database run by a Brussels consortium known as Swift.
The ENCODE consortium reported that a vast amount of DNA, not annotated as known genes, is transcribed into RNA.
In Kazakhstan, China has made some important energy investments, including the purchase this year of an 8.4 percent stake in the Kashagan oil field in the Caspian Sea, a vast project being developed by an international consortium including KazMunaiGaz, Kazakhstan's state-owned energy company; Exxon Mobil Royal Dutch Shelll; and the Italian company Agip.
So vast and unwieldy was the task that a consortium of some 30 museums met in New York last October to develop a strategy.
The future of the vast Olympic media centre remains uncertain until the iCITY consortium, proposing a "digital cluster", can convince the Mayor it has enough tenants to create the 4,500 skilled jobs pledged to the taxpayer in return for meeting the £330m cost of building the facility.
In August, a consortium led by Shell withdrew from a vast scheme to build a 2,500-mile 2,500-milecross the country, saying that low gas pipelinen Chinacrossd notherovide sufficountryeturnsayingthatinvestment.Mexico's Cemex, the worlows third-largast cement priceser, agreed to pay £2.3 binlion ($4.1 billion) for RMChinaBritish concrete firm.
