Ensembl Genomes User Survey

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* 2. For which type of organisation do you work?

Academic

Non-profit

Hospital-based research centre

Commercial

Government

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* 3. What best describes the nature of your work?

Mostly "dry" (with computers)

Mostly "wet" (at the bench)

A mixture of both

Other (please specify)

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* 4. In which field(s) are you working?

Animal health and disease

Basic research

Biotechnology

Bioinformatics or Computational Biology

Chemistry or chemoinformatics

Crop improvement

Human health and disease

Plant health and disease

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Which of the following terms best describe your current job?

Principal Investigator

Post-doctoral researcher

Graduate student

Undergraduate

Staff researcher

Educator

Non-scientist

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What divisions of Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes do you use?

Bacteria

Protists

Fungi

Plants

Metazoa

Vertebrates (http://ensembl.org)

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* 7. What is your primary species of interest?

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* 8. And why are you interested in that species?

Agricultural applications

Biotechnological applications

Environmental applications

Medical applications

It's a model system

Other (please specify)

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* 9. What is the best description of your work?

My work involves comparing many genomes

My work embraces a genome-wide approach

My work focuses on 10-1000 genes

My work focuses on genomic regions, not genes

My work focuses on fewer than 10 genes

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* 10. How do you access Ensembl Genomes?

Via the website

Via the Perl API

Via the RESTful API

Via BioMart

Via the public MySQL server

Via FTP (download and analyse the data locally)

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* 11. How frequently do you use Ensembl Genomes?

Daily/almost daily

2/3 times a week

Once a week

Once a fortnight

Monthly

Less than monthly

Never

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* 12. What do you use Ensembl Genomes for?

To look at features on the genome

To access functional information

Comparative genomics

Variation

For tool integration

To access data for download

Other (please specify)

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* 13. What is your favourite feature in Ensembl Genomes?

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* 14. What additional feature would you most like to see in Ensembl Genomes?

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* 15. If Ensembl Genomes had a feature allowing you to submit revised gene models or functional annotation, would you consider this:

A good idea, and you’d submit information

A good idea, and you’d use the data other people submit

A bad idea; Ensembl Genomes should use data that other, community-centric sites collect

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* 16. Which of the following Ensembl Genomes Tools do you use?

Variant Effect Predictor

Sequence Search (e.g. BLAST or other)

Assembly converter

ID history

Region Report

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* 17. Are there additional tools you would use if incorporated into Ensembl Genomes? If so, what?

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* 18. Tell us something nice about our interface

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* 19. And something about our interface that isn't very good

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* 20. What species would you most like to see added to Ensembl Genomes?

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* 21. And what additional data set? (please give us a PubMed ID or URL if you can!)

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* 22. Ensembl Genomes should concentrate its efforts on...

Improving the (genome browser) interface

Improved integration with data analysis tools.

Integration of data from more species

Integration of more data for selected high-impact species

Working more closely with individual communities

Other (please specify)

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* 23. If you'd like to leave your details so we can contact you, please do so (it's not compulsory!). In either case, thank you for completing the survey - we appreciate your feedback

Name

Organisation

Email Address

We'd like to know why you use Ensembl Genomes, what data and features you use within it, what we do well or badly, and what we should be doing more of in future. Please consider spending a few minutes to give us your feedback. Thank you.

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* 1. In which country do you work>

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* 2. For which type of organisation do you work?

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* 3. What best describes the nature of your work?

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* 4. In which field(s) are you working?

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* 5. Which of the following terms best describe your current job?

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* 6. What divisions of Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes do you use?

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* 7. What is your primary species of interest?

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* 8. And why are you interested in that species?

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* 9. What is the best description of your work?

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* 10. How do you access Ensembl Genomes?

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* 11. How frequently do you use Ensembl Genomes?

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* 12. What do you use Ensembl Genomes for?

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* 13. What is your favourite feature in Ensembl Genomes?

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* 14. What additional feature would you most like to see in Ensembl Genomes?

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* 15. If Ensembl Genomes had a feature allowing you to submit revised gene models or functional annotation, would you consider this:

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* 16. Which of the following Ensembl Genomes Tools do you use?

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* 17. Are there additional tools you would use if incorporated into Ensembl Genomes? If so, what?

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* 18. Tell us something nice about our interface

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* 19. And something about our interface that isn't very good

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* 20. What species would you most like to see added to Ensembl Genomes?

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* 21. And what additional data set? (please give us a PubMed ID or URL if you can!)

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* 22. Ensembl Genomes should concentrate its efforts on...

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* 23. If you'd like to leave your details so we can contact you, please do so (it's not compulsory!). In either case, thank you for completing the survey - we appreciate your feedback