Top 10 openness advances of 2010 - BioTorrents

Peter Suber has published a top 10 list of 'openness advances of 2010.

The full list is here: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/01-02-11.htm

For example, the list contains a mention of the Biotorrents project:

"The most exciting new open-data platform in 2010 was BioTorrents from Morgan Langille and Jonathan Eisen, a P2P data-sharing service for biology using BitTorrent. Something like this will be needed in every field where researchers need to share not just megabytes or gigabytes, but terabytes and petabytes."

Biotorrents is a way for scientists to upload and share data - it provides an alternative to FTP or HTTP and centralizes files for future sharing.

The Biotorrents papers has been published in PloS One and cites our 'omics data sharing paper.

BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data - paper