Survey

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1. What programs are you currently using to do the majority of your research? (Check all that apply)

What programs are you currently using to do the majority of your research? (Check all that apply) Geneious

Vector NTI

Sequencher

DNAStar (DNA*)

Open source/free software

Online web services

My own software

Other (please specify)

2. What technologies do you use for the majority of your sequencing work? (Check all that apply)

What technologies do you use for the majority of your sequencing work? (Check all that apply) Sanger

454

SOLiD

Solexa

Don't do sequencing

Other (please specify)

3. How often do you use each feature in Geneious?

	Every time I run Geneious	Regularly	Occasionally	Never	Didn't know it existed
Sequence Alignment	How often do you use each feature in Geneious? Sequence Alignment Every time I run Geneious	Sequence Alignment Regularly	Sequence Alignment Occasionally	Sequence Alignment Never	Sequence Alignment Didn't know it existed
Phylogenetics	Phylogenetics Every time I run Geneious	Phylogenetics Regularly	Phylogenetics Occasionally	Phylogenetics Never	Phylogenetics Didn't know it existed
Sequence/Alignment viewer	Sequence/Alignment viewer Every time I run Geneious	Sequence/Alignment viewer Regularly	Sequence/Alignment viewer Occasionally	Sequence/Alignment viewer Never	Sequence/Alignment viewer Didn't know it existed
BLAST	BLAST Every time I run Geneious	BLAST Regularly	BLAST Occasionally	BLAST Never	BLAST Didn't know it existed
Database Searching (NCBI, UniProt, Pfam)	Database Searching (NCBI, UniProt, Pfam) Every time I run Geneious	Database Searching (NCBI, UniProt, Pfam) Regularly	Database Searching (NCBI, UniProt, Pfam) Occasionally	Database Searching (NCBI, UniProt, Pfam) Never	Database Searching (NCBI, UniProt, Pfam) Didn't know it existed
Contig Assembly	Contig Assembly Every time I run Geneious	Contig Assembly Regularly	Contig Assembly Occasionally	Contig Assembly Never	Contig Assembly Didn't know it existed
Primer Design	Primer Design Every time I run Geneious	Primer Design Regularly	Primer Design Occasionally	Primer Design Never	Primer Design Didn't know it existed
Restriction Analysis	Restriction Analysis Every time I run Geneious	Restriction Analysis Regularly	Restriction Analysis Occasionally	Restriction Analysis Never	Restriction Analysis Didn't know it existed
Agents	Agents Every time I run Geneious	Agents Regularly	Agents Occasionally	Agents Never	Agents Didn't know it existed
Collaboration	Collaboration Every time I run Geneious	Collaboration Regularly	Collaboration Occasionally	Collaboration Never	Collaboration Didn't know it existed
Notes	Notes Every time I run Geneious	Notes Regularly	Notes Occasionally	Notes Never	Notes Didn't know it existed
Teaching	Teaching Every time I run Geneious	Teaching Regularly	Teaching Occasionally	Teaching Never	Teaching Didn't know it existed

Others (please specify)

4. How well do you think Geneious scores on the following aspects?

	Excellent	Good	Mediocre	Poor
Completeness of feature set	How well do you think Geneious scores on the following aspects? Completeness of feature set Excellent	Completeness of feature set Good	Completeness of feature set Mediocre	Completeness of feature set Poor
Ease of use	Ease of use Excellent	Ease of use Good	Ease of use Mediocre	Ease of use Poor
Reliability/Stability	Reliability/Stability Excellent	Reliability/Stability Good	Reliability/Stability Mediocre	Reliability/Stability Poor
Price	Price Excellent	Price Good	Price Mediocre	Price Poor
Quality of support	Quality of support Excellent	Quality of support Good	Quality of support Mediocre	Quality of support Poor
Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Excellent	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Good	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Mediocre	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Poor

Comments or suggestions for improvement:

5. How important do you think it is for Geneious to improve on each of the following?

	Crucial	Important	Slightly important	Irrelevant
Completeness of feature set	How important do you think it is for Geneious to improve on each of the following? Completeness of feature set Crucial	Completeness of feature set Important	Completeness of feature set Slightly important	Completeness of feature set Irrelevant
Ease of use	Ease of use Crucial	Ease of use Important	Ease of use Slightly important	Ease of use Irrelevant
Reliability/Stability	Reliability/Stability Crucial	Reliability/Stability Important	Reliability/Stability Slightly important	Reliability/Stability Irrelevant
Price	Price Crucial	Price Important	Price Slightly important	Price Irrelevant
Quality of support	Quality of support Crucial	Quality of support Important	Quality of support Slightly important	Quality of support Irrelevant
Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Crucial	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Important	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Slightly important	Extensibility by downloadable plugins and public API Irrelevant

Comments:

6. How important to you are each of the following improvements to Geneious?

	Crucial	Important	Slightly important	Irrelevant
Improve smart agents (allow detailed filtering by keywords)	How important to you are each of the following improvements to Geneious? Improve smart agents (allow detailed filtering by keywords) Crucial	Improve smart agents (allow detailed filtering by keywords) Important	Improve smart agents (allow detailed filtering by keywords) Slightly important	Improve smart agents (allow detailed filtering by keywords) Irrelevant
Improve BLAST interface (query-centric alignment of results etc.)	Improve BLAST interface (query-centric alignment of results etc.) Crucial	Improve BLAST interface (query-centric alignment of results etc.) Important	Improve BLAST interface (query-centric alignment of results etc.) Slightly important	Improve BLAST interface (query-centric alignment of results etc.) Irrelevant
A solution for handling new high throughput sequencers (SOLiD and Solexa)	A solution for handling new high throughput sequencers (SOLiD and Solexa) Crucial	A solution for handling new high throughput sequencers (SOLiD and Solexa) Important	A solution for handling new high throughput sequencers (SOLiD and Solexa) Slightly important	A solution for handling new high throughput sequencers (SOLiD and Solexa) Irrelevant
Graphical interface for building automated workflows	Graphical interface for building automated workflows Crucial	Graphical interface for building automated workflows Important	Graphical interface for building automated workflows Slightly important	Graphical interface for building automated workflows Irrelevant
A specialised operation for molecular cloning (like Vector NTI)	A specialised operation for molecular cloning (like Vector NTI) Crucial	A specialised operation for molecular cloning (like Vector NTI) Important	A specialised operation for molecular cloning (like Vector NTI) Slightly important	A specialised operation for molecular cloning (like Vector NTI) Irrelevant
Track changes to documents and supply editing history	Track changes to documents and supply editing history Crucial	Track changes to documents and supply editing history Important	Track changes to documents and supply editing history Slightly important	Track changes to documents and supply editing history Irrelevant
Improve protein visualization (tighter integration between 3D and amino acid view etc.)	Improve protein visualization (tighter integration between 3D and amino acid view etc.) Crucial	Improve protein visualization (tighter integration between 3D and amino acid view etc.) Important	Improve protein visualization (tighter integration between 3D and amino acid view etc.) Slightly important	Improve protein visualization (tighter integration between 3D and amino acid view etc.) Irrelevant
Add a Genbank submission interface	Add a Genbank submission interface Crucial	Add a Genbank submission interface Important	Add a Genbank submission interface Slightly important	Add a Genbank submission interface Irrelevant
Add next-gen sequencing functionality	Add next-gen sequencing functionality Crucial	Add next-gen sequencing functionality Important	Add next-gen sequencing functionality Slightly important	Add next-gen sequencing functionality Irrelevant

Other important features:

7. How important do you think it is to create Geneious plugins for each of the following command line programs?

	Crucial	Important	Slightly important	Irrelevant
HMMER	How important do you think it is to create Geneious plugins for each of the following command line programs? HMMER Crucial	HMMER Important	HMMER Slightly important	HMMER Irrelevant
Beast	Beast Crucial	Beast Important	Beast Slightly important	Beast Irrelevant
T-Coffee	T-Coffee Crucial	T-Coffee Important	T-Coffee Slightly important	T-Coffee Irrelevant
PAML	PAML Crucial	PAML Important	PAML Slightly important	PAML Irrelevant
CAP3	CAP3 Crucial	CAP3 Important	CAP3 Slightly important	CAP3 Irrelevant

Other (please specify):

8. How important is it to add the following programs to the EMBOSS plugin?

	Crucial	Important	Slightly important	Irrelevant
est2genome (align EST to genome)	How important is it to add the following programs to the EMBOSS plugin? est2genome (align EST to genome) Crucial	est2genome (align EST to genome) Important	est2genome (align EST to genome) Slightly important	est2genome (align EST to genome) Irrelevant
tfscan (find transcription factors)	tfscan (find transcription factors) Crucial	tfscan (find transcription factors) Important	tfscan (find transcription factors) Slightly important	tfscan (find transcription factors) Irrelevant
helixturnhelix (find HTH)	helixturnhelix (find HTH) Crucial	helixturnhelix (find HTH) Important	helixturnhelix (find HTH) Slightly important	helixturnhelix (find HTH) Irrelevant
oddcomp (find biased composition)	oddcomp (find biased composition) Crucial	oddcomp (find biased composition) Important	oddcomp (find biased composition) Slightly important	oddcomp (find biased composition) Irrelevant
marscan (find MAR/SAR sites)	marscan (find MAR/SAR sites) Crucial	marscan (find MAR/SAR sites) Important	marscan (find MAR/SAR sites) Slightly important	marscan (find MAR/SAR sites) Irrelevant
tcode (identify protein-coding DNA)	tcode (identify protein-coding DNA) Crucial	tcode (identify protein-coding DNA) Important	tcode (identify protein-coding DNA) Slightly important	tcode (identify protein-coding DNA) Irrelevant

Others (please specify):

9. Would free training/web demonstrations be of interest to you and your team?

Would free training/web demonstrations be of interest to you and your team? Yes

Don't know

Comments:

10. In what role do you do most of your research?

In what role do you do most of your research? Student

Post-doc

Professor

Government Scientist

Medical Scientist

Private/Commercial Scientist

Other (please specify)

11. OPTIONAL - If you are happy for us to contact you regarding your answers, please leave your details below.

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