FUGE Bioinformatics Survey 2010

Part 1 " The European Bioinformatics Infrastructure" Elixir
For more information about the Elixir initiative, see www.elixir-europe.org.

1. Were you aware of the Elixir initiative prior to this survey?
No Yes I learnt about it from

2. How do judge the importance of Norway establishing an Elixir Node?

a) Important to support central databases (e.g., UniProt, EMBL-bank, ArrayExpress). (No importance) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very important)
b) Important to improve infrastructure supporting data and tools integration. (No importance) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very important)
c) Important to ensure quality and coordination of Norwegian bioinformatics infrastructure with European-wide efforts. (No importance) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very important)
d) Important to maintain a Norwegian network offering bioinformatics infrastructure, services, training. (No importance) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very important)

Part 2 "User satisfaction" survey
The FUGE Bioinformatics platform provides services in bioinformatics.
Please indicate your experiences with these services by answering the following questions.

1)Are you aware of the existence of the Norwegian FUGE platform for bioinformatics?
Yes

No (if No you are done with Part 2, but please visit the www.bioinfo.no site)


2) How did you learn about the platform services?
If otherwise, please specify:
3) Would you say it easy to find out what type of services the platform offer? Very difficult 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very easy)
4) Would you say it is easy to find out whom to contact? Very difficult 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very easy)
5) The platform offers "free diagnosis" preliminary to any service, did you know about it? Yes No

6) How many times have you approached the platform for a service? Never Once More than two times
(if Never you are done with Part 2 )
7) Which platform node did you contact (please mark all that apply)?
Q 7 and 8: You can choose several alternatives by holding down the ctrl-button.
8) What kind of service have you used (please mark all that apply)?
If otherwise, please specify:

9) Did you pay for the service provided?

10) Would you use the service again if the conditions are the same? (Definitely not) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Definitely)
11) Would you use the service if it had a cost? (Definitely not) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Definitely)
12) Would you describe the service you obtained as "service" or "research collaboration"? (Service) 0 1 2 3 4 5 (Research collaboration)

13) Satisfaction tick one box per line
A. Speed of initial feedback      (Very slow)   0 1 2 3 4 5 (Very fast)
B. Quality of initial feedback      (Poor)     0 1 2 3 4 5 (Excellent)
C. Speed of final delivery   0 1 2 3 4 5  
D. Quality of final delivery     0 1 2 3 4 5  
E. Overall satisfaction      0 1 2 3 4 5  


Comments:

Part 3 User courses in bioinformatics
The FUGE Bioinformatics platform organises user courses in bioinformatics.
Please provide feedback on your interest in learning more about following topics.
Please also indicate your current level of competence.

 

Topic

Interest
Not                              Very
interested            interested

Current
competence
None                        Expert

1. Basic sequence analysis (searching, aligning, predicting properties)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

2. Understanding sequence evolution (phylogenetic analysis)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

3. Getting protein structure (predicting secondary structure, homology modelling)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

4. Analysing non-coding RNAs (micro-RNAs)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

5. Analysing gene regulation (transcription factors)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

6. Analysing genome variation (SNPs, copy number variation)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

7. Using genome browsers (UCSC Genome Browser, Ensembl, HyperBrowser)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

8. Moving data around (data formats, simple scripting)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

9. Analysing sequencing data (sequence assembly, annotation)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

10. Programming for bioinformatics (perl, python)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

11. Using generic tools for bioinformatics (R)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

12. Using Linux (basic commands, command line tools)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

13. Statistical analysis of high-througput genomic data

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

14. Statistical software tools (R, Matlab, ...)

 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 2 3 4 5

Comments (e.g. additional topics not mentioned):


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