Collaboration means moving data
A FASTQ run from one sequencing core, an HDF5 stack from an instrument, a terabyte of simulation output for a co-author on another continent. Each is a transfer that the usual campus tools make slow and that per-GB transfer services make expensive. Boita’s accelerated engine runs over UDP with its own rate control, so a transfer holds your line rate over any distance and finishes in hours rather than days.
Large jobs run as parallel sessions sized to your plan, transfers resume by themselves after a drop, sleep or restart in the desktop app, and completed files are never re-sent. From a browser, an interrupted transfer starts again.
Links for people outside your workspace
Send a share link to a collaborator; they open a page, see the file list and sizes and download without creating an account. Every link has an expiry; add a password or a download limit if the data is under embargo, and see on the sender dashboard who downloaded what. Send by email straight from Boita with a message.
To receive data from a partner lab, create an upload portal for a folder. Their upload lands in its own dated inbox folder with their name attached, and both sides get an email when it completes.
Integrity you can cite
Every file shows the checksum the server recorded when it arrived. Compare it with the one you computed on the instrument and you know the copy is bit-for-bit identical. Delivery receipts list files, sizes, checksums, timestamp and who downloaded, with a CSV verification report, and as a PDF on Scale and above.
A 1 TB simulation output leaves a lab on Pro, over a 1 Gbps campus line, in about five hours, plan-limited at 450 Mbps; on Scale over the same line it is line-limited and takes about two and a quarter hours. What a co-author abroad sees on the way down depends on distance and loss on their side; the calculator on the home page models it.
Budget-shaped pricing
Plans are flat monthly amounts sized by storage, share retention and seats. Free gives a 10 GB workspace with three-day share retention; Pro gives 1 TB, 14 days and three seats; Scale gives 10 TB, 30 days and fifteen seats. Downloads and re-downloads are free on every plan, there are no per-GB transfer fees, and storage usage is shown on every page with an email before you reach your quota.
Datasets that must be kept for a funder but rarely opened can move to the archive tier with a manifest and restore on demand (Scale and above).
- Line-rate transfers of FASTQ, HDF5 and simulation output; desktop-app resume
- Share links and upload portals with no accounts for collaborators
- Checksums on every file; receipts with a verification report
- Flat plans, no per-GB fees, downloads always free
- Archive tier with manifest and restore (Scale and above)