<s>
BitTorious	B-Application
is	O
a	O
combination	O
Open	B-License
Source	I-License
BitTorrent	B-Protocol
Tracker	I-Protocol
and	O
web-based	O
management	O
portal	O
released	O
in	O
2014	O
by	O
Preston	O
Lee	O
from	O
the	O
Biomedical	O
Informatics	O
Department	O
at	O
Arizona	O
State	O
University	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
primary	O
difference	O
between	O
BitTorious	B-Application
 '	O
integrated	O
tracker	B-Protocol
and	O
other	O
available	O
trackers	B-Protocol
is	O
the	O
addition	O
of	O
a	O
role-based	O
permissions	O
model	O
and	O
feed-based	O
organization	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
source	O
code	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
AngularJS	B-Application
,	O
Ruby	B-Application
on	I-Application
Rails	I-Application
and	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
,	O
and	O
may	O
be	O
run	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
Windows	B-Application
or	O
OS	B-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
server	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BitTorious	B-Application
v3	O
is	O
the	O
current	O
production	O
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Major	O
differences	O
include	O
tracker	B-Protocol
support	O
for	O
"	O
volunteer	O
"	O
clients	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
corresponding	O
configuration	O
options	O
in	O
the	O
web-based	O
user	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
release	O
coincides	O
with	O
an	O
academic	O
publication	O
entitled	O
"	O
BitTorious	B-Application
volunteer	O
:	O
server-side	O
extensions	O
for	O
centrally-managed	O
volunteer	O
storage	O
in	O
BitTorrent	O
swarms	O
"	O
published	O
November	O
4	O
,	O
2015	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Release	O
of	O
2.0.0	O
was	O
a	O
rewrite	O
of	O
a	O
previously	O
unpublished	O
v1.0.0	O
,	O
and	O
marked	O
by	O
the	O
publication	O
of	O
a	O
paper	O
entitled	O
"	O
BitTorious	B-Application
:	O
global	O
controlled	O
genomics	O
data	O
publication	O
,	O
research	O
and	O
archiving	O
via	O
BitTorrent	O
extensions	O
"	O
in	O
BMC	O
Bioinformatics	O
on	O
October	O
7	O
,	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
design	O
of	O
BitTorious	B-Application
was	O
initially	O
intended	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
private	O
groups	O
of	O
collaborators	O
needing	O
to	O
frequently	O
exchange	O
large	O
data	O
payloads	O
,	O
as	O
is	O
common	O
in	O
genomics	O
,	O
proteomics	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
data-intensive	O
fields	O
.	O
</s>
