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The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium is an international collaboration of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The goal of ENCODE is to build a comprehensive parts list of functional elements in the human genome, including elements that act at the protein and RNA levels, and regulatory elements that control cells and circumstances in which a gene is active.

General semantics is a system that generalizes the principles and methods of modern science to all areas of human activity. Its principles and methods can be utilized to enhance our creative and critical thinking processes, and thus achieve better management of our day-to-day activities and our relationships.

Standards for Web Content Interoperability The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

a metadata server that gathers library metadata from multiple institutions and makes it available through open APIs and as Linked Open Data. The aim is to make everything libraries know available to the full Web ecosystem.

The Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) explores the research and engineering principles that underlie the Web, to enhance the Web's reach beyond the desktop and laptop computer, and develops new technologies and languages that expand the capabilities of the Web under three themes: Future Web, Xinformatics and Semantic Foundations.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the global voice of the library and information profession.

Tetherless World Constellation (TWC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) explores the research and engineering principles that underlie the Web, to enhance the Web's reach beyond the desktop and laptop computer, and develops new technologies and languages that expand the capabilities of the Web under three themes: Future Web, Xinformatics and Semantic Foundations.

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, with sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin, is the leading German research institute in the field of innovative software technology. In the international scientific community, DFKI ranks among the most recognized "Centers of Excellence".

"Open edX is the open-source educational platform developed by edX and its open source partners, including leading institutions. It powers the edX.org destination site and research initiatives and will power mooc.org."

MAJOR COMMUNITY NETWORKS & LEADING RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE Have joined forces

"A study conducted by researchers at cancer centers across the US has found a link between omega-3 fatty acids and an increased risk of prostate cancer. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in fish including salmon, trout, and fresh tuna, and in fish oil supplements. The study, published online July 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, looked at blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids in some of the men enrolled in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) of more than 35,000 men over age 50 in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada. The study did not collect information on the men's diets. Therefore, it's not clear whether the omega-3 fatty acids in their blood came from food or from supplements."

"Wenn Gitarristen im Duett musizieren, synchronisiert sich die Aktivität ihrer Hirnwellen. Dies hatten Wissenschaftler um Ulman Lindenberger vom Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin bereits 2009 herausgefunden. Jetzt sind die Wissenschaftler einen Schritt weiter gegangen und haben die Hirnaktivität von jeweils zwei Gitarrenspielern untersucht, die ein Musikstück mit zwei unterschiedlichen Stimmen wiedergaben. Hiermit wollten sie herausfinden, ob die Synchronisation der Hirnwellen auch dann zustande kommen würde, wenn die beiden Gitarrenspieler eben nicht genau das Gleiche spielten"

" Dieses intelligente Rückstoßprinzip stand Forschern des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA beim Entwickeln eines Unterwasserantriebs Pate. »Kraken nutzen diese Art der Fortbewegung hauptsächlich für eine plötzliche schnelle Flucht. Das System ist zwar einfach, aber effektiv. Die Oktopoden können damit über kurze Strecken enorm beschleunigen«, sagt Andreas Fischer, Ingenieur am IPA in Stuttgart. »Wir haben das Antriebsprinzip in unsere Unterwasseraktoren integriert: Vier elastische Kunststoffbälle mit einem mechanischen Innenleben pumpen Wasser und sorgen so für Vortrieb.«"

"Cellendes continously expands the 3-D Life product line to provide an innovative and increasingly comprehensive technology for a broad range of applications in 3-D cell culture. Cellendes seeks collaborations with academic and industrial partners to explore and develop the use of the 3-D Life technology in complex cell-based assays and tissue models for drug screening as well as in biomedical engineering. Cellendes was founded in 2009 by Dr. Brigitte Angres and Dr. Helmut Wurst. Cellendes is a spinoff company of the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at the University of Tübingen."