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MGI User Survey
1.
How often do you use MGI (www.informatics.jax.org)?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Occasionally
New User
2.
How useful is MGI when you are:
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Designing an experiment
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
Interpreting results
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
Writing a research paper
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
Writing a grant proposal
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
Teaching
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
Seeking/acquiring a mouse
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
3.
How useful is each of the following components when you are using MGI:
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Gene pages
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Mutant alleles/phenotypes
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Human disease models
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Gene expression data
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Genome Data (sequence, SNP, genome browser)
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Gene functions (GO annotations)
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
References
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
MouseMine
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Batch Query
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
FTP/Reports
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never
Not applicable
Other (please specify)
4.
How useful are these recent SNP enhancements?
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
SNP data increased 4-fold and includes the Sanger MGP (v5) SNP set
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
MGI SNP Query
allows you to mouseover a strain to see the number of its SNPs included in MGI.
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
5.
How useful are these recent GXD/expression enhancements?
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Gene Expression Profile Search
, a tool to search for genes by their expression profile
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
Added GEO data to the GXD HT metadata index
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
6.
How useful are these other recent MGI enhancements?
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
We added a tool to find related terms in the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and Mammalian Phenotype (MP) Ontology, and add these to a Human - Mouse: Disease Connection (
HMDC
) phenotype ID search
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
QTL Detail Pages now include candidate genes and QTL interactions. Examples:
Skts2
and
Lmr14
QTL Detail pages
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
Improved representation of the pseudoautosomal region (PAR)
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
The Multiple Genome Viewer (
MGV
) now includes 2 Xenopus species
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
Incorporated Regulatory Features from Ensembl, Vista and NCBI
Very
Somewhat useful
Not Very
Haven't used them
Didn't know about them
Comments
7.
What species do you use in your research? (multiple selections allowed)
Human
Mouse
Rat
Non-human primates
Other mammals
Chicken
Drosophila
Frog
Worm (C. elegans)
Yeast
Other (please specify)
8.
What are your primary research areas? (multiple selections allowed)
Aging
Behavior
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Cardiovascular
Cancer
Cell Biology
Development
Endocrinology
Diabetes/Obesity
Genetics/Genomics
Infectious Disease
Immunology
Metabolism
Molecular Biology
Muscle/Musculature
Neurobiology
Pathology
Physiology
Renal/Urinary System
Respiratory System
Reproduction
Senses (hearing, smell, touch, vision, etc)
Signaling
Skeleton/Craniofacial
Technology Development
Translational Medicine
9.
How would you like to hear about new features/data/interfaces for MGI?
MGI home page announcements
Alliance Of Genome Resources Community Forum
MGI FaceBook
Bluesky (Twitter alternative)
Other (please specify)
10.
YOUR COMMENTS COUNT! Let us know what we are doing well and where we can improve. [If you would like a response to your comments, please include your Name and Email address.]