Biotorrents is a system for sharing biological data using the Bittorrent protocol. It was developed by Morgan Langille when he was a post-doc in the Eisen lab. More information about Biotorrents can be found below:
- Biotorrents web site
- Biotorrents paper in PLoS One
- Eisen blog post: Experiments in Scientific Sharing
- Nature News Blog: BioTorrent aims to open data sharing floodgates
- Beta Science: BioTorrents – a file sharing resource for scientists
- BioTorrents: A BitTorrent Tracker Site for Scientists
- BioTorrents (BioTorrents) on Twitter
- BioTorrents | Google Groups
- BioTorrents | openMaterials
- BioSharing: Top 10 openness advances of 2010 – BioTorrents
- FORA.tv – Morgan Langille: BioTorrents
Jonathan Eisen's Lab 
I’ve been trying to download the 40 genome E coli/Shigella alignment from biotorrents, but it seems to be down. Any idea what is going on? Is the data available anywhere else?
Thanks
Mark
LikeLike
Not sure what is going on there … seems to be some sort of server overload. Will ping Morgan Langille about it …
LikeLike
Sorry about that. Biotorrents is back online.
LikeLike
Thanks, I’ll give it another try.
Mark
LikeLike