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BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data
The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a significant challenge, as datasets continue to grow in size and demand for open access sharing increases. Current methods for file transfer do not scale well for large files and can cause long transfer times. In this study we present BioTorrents, a we...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854681/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20418944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010071 |
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author | Langille, Morgan G. I. Eisen, Jonathan A. |
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description | The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a significant challenge, as datasets continue to grow in size and demand for open access sharing increases. Current methods for file transfer do not scale well for large files and can cause long transfer times. In this study we present 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. BioTorrents is available at http://www.biotorrents.net. |
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spelling | pubmed-28546812010-04-23 BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data Langille, Morgan G. I. Eisen, Jonathan A. PLoS One Research Article The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a significant challenge, as datasets continue to grow in size and demand for open access sharing increases. Current methods for file transfer do not scale well for large files and can cause long transfer times. In this study we present 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. BioTorrents is available at http://www.biotorrents.net. Public Library of Science 2010-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC2854681/ /pubmed/20418944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010071 Text en Langille, Eisen. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Langille, Morgan G. I. Eisen, Jonathan A. BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data |
title | BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data |
title_full | BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data |
title_fullStr | BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data |
title_full_unstemmed | BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data |
title_short | BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data |
title_sort | biotorrents: a file sharing service for scientific data |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854681/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20418944 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010071 |
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