Thread: BioTorrents (BioT) Review

BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Sharing Scientific Data

BioTorrents is one of those rare private trackers that focus only on legal content. It’s an innovative new niche site that highlights yet another legitimate use of BitTorrent – sharing of scientific research data including large datasets and even open access software. In other words, it’s a huge data repository that can be accessed by hundreds and thousands of scientists and students worldwide.

BioTorrents allows scientists to rapidly share their results, datasets, and software.
All data is open-access and any illegal filesharing is not allowed on BioTorrents.
It encourages researchers and organizations to share their data on BioTorrents as an alternative to hosting files through FTP or HTTP for the following reasons:

1. Using BioTorrents can allow researchers to download large datasets much faster.
2. BioTorrents can act as a central listing of results, datasets, and software that can be browsed and searched.
3. Data can be located on several servers allowing decentralization and availability of the data if one server becomes disabled

This site does not host any illegal content and all of the software and data distributed are either public domain or have ‘sharing friendly’ licenses such as Creative Commons (CC), GPL and so on. BioTorrents has its own private torrent tracker (biotorrents.net/announce.php) but all of the indexed torrents are tracked by OpenBitTorrent as a backup measure. In case anyone was wondering, the site is built on TBDEV tracker script.

BioTorrents contains multiple features, including keyword searching, category browsing, RSS feeds, torrent comments, and a discussion forum.


BitTorrent technology can help reduce bandwidth costs and allow greater accessibility for content – some of those torrents are huge.


Signups for BioTorrents are currently open. If you are a scientist or a student of science, you might want to check the site out.

Site Name: BioTorrents (http://www.biotorrents.net)
Signup URL: BioTorrents :: Signup


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29 May 2010
BioTorrents poster was presented at the American Microbiology Society General Meeting in San Diego.


Registered
users987
Torrents45
Peers158
Seeders151
Leechers7
Seeder/leecher ratio (%)2157






Torrent Categories

Bioinformatics
Chemistry
Genomics
Metabolomics
Metagenomics
Misc
Papers
Password protected
Phylogenetics
Transcriptomics



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Forums


The forums deals with various scientific discussions and debates.








Rules/FAQ



This site does not host any illegal content and all of the software and data distributed are either public domain or have ‘sharing friendly’ licenses such as Creative Commons (CC), GPL and so on.
Illegal material is not welcome on this website at any time and if found should be reported immediately to the staff.






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Something special about the tracker


Maybe the only pure hardcore research data private torrent tracker around!

E-Learning I love it and look forward to get an invite. Enjoyed reading man nice review!

Originally Posted by Razor

E-Learning I love it and look forward to get an invite. Enjoyed reading man nice review!

You dont need an invite now! It is open for signup!

well this looks like a god idea,hopefully it will get some more members and activity as time goes by.