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Tranche Project – Secure P2P for the Scientific Community
http://tranche.proteomecommons.org/

The Tranche Project is a free and open source file sharing tool that enables collections of computers to easily share and cite scientific data sets. Designed and built with scientists and researchers in mind, Tranche essentially solves the data sharing problem in a secure and scalable fashion. Scientific tools and data sets are helpful for validating published work, designing software algorithms, aiding current research, and much more. However, sharing large amounts of scientific data is not currently an easy task. Sometimes data is too large to share via e-mail or on a web server. Sometimes data disappears due to an individual leaving a group, or a server crashing. Sometimes data is too hard to find. And sometimes, data isn’t shared because some level of confidentiality or restricted access must be guaranteed. The Tranche tool solves these issues and removes the obstacles commonly inherent in scientific data sharing. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the P2P section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.