Form 1 NLM NCBI Microbe Conference Survey Instrument

ASM Microbe Conference Survey
We Welcome Your Feedback

We are collecting feedback to find out how you use NCBI's Microbial Genome resources, and what you'd
like to see in the future. Thank you in advance for your time and interest.
OMB Control Number: 0925-0648
Expiration Date: 03/31/2018
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1. What NCBI resources do you use the most?

2. Do you use bacterial (or other microbial) genome data from NCBI?
Yes
No

3. Are you using GenBank or RefSeq data (choose all that apply)?
GenBank
RefSeq
I'm not sure.

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4. For the data you use, how do you find data of interest?
NCBI Genome search
NCBI BioProject search
NCBI Nucleotide search
BLAST
Other (please specify)

5. Do you want all bacterial genomes to be annotated (even thousands of sequenced isolates for the same
species/strain)?
Yes
No

6. If yes, why?

7. Do you download RefSeq or GenBank genomes and/or proteins and/or gene data from NCBI?
Yes
No

8. If yes, what type, and how much, data do you download (e.g. a single genome, all for a species, all
bacteria, all RefSeq, all GenBank)?

9. How do you download RefSeq orGenBank data (check all that apply)?
NCBI Website
FTP
NCBI e-Utilities or APIs
Other (please specify)

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10. What do you want to do with bacterial genome sequence and/or annotation and/or metadata? What are
your use cases?

11. What else do you need from NCBI for microbial genomes? Do you need more tools to faciliate
submitting, downloading, visualizing, or interpreting the data? What types of tools or interpretations are
most needed?

12. Any other comments?

13. Do you mind if we contact you for follow up? If not, please enter your email address below (optional).

14. How likely is it that you would recommend NCBI's microbial genome resources to a friend or colleague?
Not at all likely
0

Extremely likely
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