BitTorious is a combination

Open Source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

BitTorrent Tracker A BitTorrent tracker is a special type of server that assists in the communication between peers using the BitTorrent protocol. In peer-to-peer file sharing, a software client on an end-user PC requests a file, and portions of the requested f ...

and web-based management portal released in 2014 by Preston Lee from the Biomedical Informatics Department at

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. The primary difference between BitTorious' integrated tracker and other available trackers is the addition of a role-based permissions model and feed-based organization system. The source code is written in

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and

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, and may be run on

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server environments.

Major releases

v3.0.0

BitTorious v3 is the current production release. Major differences include tracker support for "volunteer" clients, as well as corresponding configuration options in the web-based user interface. Its release coincides with an academic publication entitled "BitTorious volunteer: server-side extensions for centrally-managed volunteer storage in BitTorrent swarms" published November 4, 2015.

v2.0.0

Release of 2.0.0 was a rewrite of a previously unpublished v1.0.0, and marked by the publication of a paper entitled "BitTorious: global controlled genomics data publication, research and archiving via BitTorrent extensions" in

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on October 7, 2014.

Academics

The design of BitTorious was initially intended to be used by private groups of collaborators needing to frequently exchange large data payloads, as is common in

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

proteomics Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replication of DNA. In ...

, and other data-intensive fields. The software's generic design, however, allows for usage in any domain.

References

{{reflist, refs= {{cite journal, title=BitTorious: global controlled genomics data publication, research and archiving via BitTorrent extensions, first1=Preston V., last1=Lee, first2=Valentin, last2=Dinu, date=January 1, 2014, journal=BMC Bioinformatics, volume=15, pages=424, doi=10.1186/s12859-014-0424-9, pmid=25528455, pmc=4280033 http://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-015-0779-6 BitTorious volunteer: server-side extensions for centrally-managed volunteer storage in BitTorrent swarms https://github.com/preston/bittorious Source code {{cite web, url=https://prestonlee.com , title=Preston Lee's Blog – Software craftsman , access-date=2016-04-21 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515145532/https://www.prestonlee.com/ , archive-date=2016-05-15 Author (Preston Lee)

External links

*https://github.com/preston/bittorious Free software BitTorrent tracker Servers (computing)