The website is about BiosciBionet, which is an electronic communication forum used by biological scientists worldwide. It features Bionet Usenet newsgroups and parallel email lists that facilitate open science communication. The site mentions that BiosciBionet has been providing open access internet news groups for discussion among life scientists since the 1980s. Initially started in conjunction with the GenBank project at Stanford University, it later moved to the Rosalind Franklin Centre in the late 1990s and then to Indiana University's Biology Department in 2005. The website discusses the future of Bionets and invites suggestions and comments from readers via email or through joining the Bionetgeneral email list on Bioforumnet-Bioscience Reader. The report also highlights that while there are continuing values associated with this communication forum, there are certain costs involved as well. Overall, BiosciBionet serves as a platform for active discussions among its 15,000 subscribers through distributed emails and Usenet channels related to biology and life sciences.
