Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
Jonathan Eisen and his team at the University of California, Davis Genome Center have developed a new website, www.biotorrents.net, that allows rapid file sharing of large sets of scientific data. Using BitTorrent’s peer-to-peer technology, the site shares bandwidth across institutions and splits data sets into smaller pieces, making it possible for multiple users to transfer and search large files quickly. Funding from a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant to UC Davis helped support the BioTorrents project, which is featured in the April 14 issue of PLoS ONE.
Related Links:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100421/full/4641108a.html
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/04/improving_the_portability_of_d_1.html http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/bittorrenting-biology-getting-the-big-picture-in-search.ars
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University of California, Davis Genome Center
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Interdisciplinary Metagenomics Studies
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