BioTorrents: A file sharing service for scientific data

BioTorrents, a website that allows open access sharing of scientific data and uses the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing technology. BioTorrents allows files to be transferred rapidly due to the sharing of bandwidth across multiple institutions and provides more reliable file transfers due to the built-in error checking of the file sharing technology. BioTorrents contains multiple features, including keyword searching, category browsing, RSS feeds, torrent comments, and a discussion forum.

AVAILABILITY:
BioTorrents is available at http://www.biotorrents.net/

REFERENCE:
A complete description of BioTorrents is described in the manuscript at http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010071

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