The Great Beyond: BioTorrent aims to open data sharing floodgates
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"A new website that allows people to share scientific data using the principles that underlie hugely successful peer-to-peer systems has been unveiled by University of California, Davis scientists, who present the tool this week in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Using BitTorrent file-sharing technology, BioTorrents transfers files rapidly by sharing bandwidth among many users across multiple institutions...."