UCSC Genome Browser User Satisfaction Survey

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We appreciate your feedback. Your input not only helps us improve the Browser, but also supports the continued funding that keeps it freely available to the community.
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1.
How long have you been using the UCSC Genome Browser?
Less than 1 year
2–4 years
5–9 years
> 10 years
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2.
How frequently do you use the UCSC Genome Browser?
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
A few times per year
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3.
Overall, how satisfied are you with the UCSC Genome Browser?
Very satisfied
Satisfied
Neutral
Dissatisfied
Very dissatisfied
4.
Please rate your satisfaction with the following aspects:
GreatOKNeeds improvement
Speed / response time
Speed / response time
Ease of use / user interface
Ease of use / user interface
Reliability / uptime
Reliability / uptime
Quality of documentation
Quality of documentation
5.
Which of these best describes your usage of the Genome Browser? Select all that apply[Checkboxes]
Research (academic)
Research (academic), but I'm also using it for teaching
Research (industry / pharma / biotech)
Clinical interpretation
Primarily for personal interest
Primarily teaching
I am not using it myself, data analyst or software developer
6.
Did you try one of our new interactive tutorials?
Yes, I find them helpful
Not helpful for me, but maybe for others
I do not think they are helpful
Yes, and I think you should add one about this topic:
7.
What are your thoughts on the number of annotation tracks available on the UCSC Genome Browser?
Not enough, annotations I need are missing
Adequate for my uses
More than enough, many seem unnecessary
Too many, I don't know where to start
Enough tracks for my needs, but it is hard to find what I need
8.
For which topic should we have more annotation tracks?[Checkboxes]
More annotations for non-human/mouse genomes
Splice site predictions and variants
Non-coding RNAs, e.g. miRNAs, circRNAs
Short tandem repeats
Short ORFs (e.g. RNU4)
Cancer-related: fusion genes, variants
Better general gene information pages
More transcript models (long-reads), e.g. tissue specific
Biobank summary statistics and GWAS
NMD (nonsense mediated decay)
Deep mutational scanning (DMS) of coding sequences (such as maveDB)
More genome comparison/multiple alignment tracks
DNA Methylation, imprinting
TADs
Expression data: RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq as barcharts
HI-C
RNA Methylation
Non-coding variant impact: MPRAs
Enhancers
9.
Regarding annotation tracks: Do you know of a topic, database, or paper that we should add?
10.
How often do you encounter technical issues while using the UCSC Genome Browser?
For example, tracks disappearing, track unfindable, unreadable error messages, crashes, and unusable performance. You can describe the problem in the textbox at the end of this survey.
Never
Rarely
Sometimes
Often
11.
Please rank the following features in order of importance to you (1 being the most important).[Please sort the items]
  • Speed of response
  • Ease of use
  • Email support response time
  • Large choice of annotation tracks
12.
Are you using these features in the Genome Browser?[Checkboxes]
Tools > BLAT and in-silico PCR
Tools > Table Browser to download spreadsheets
My Data > Track hubs to add third-party tracks
My Data > Custom tracks to upload my annotations
I make my own track hubs
Lifting my annotations between assemblies
My Data > Track Collection Builder to combine signal tracks
13.
How is your group funded?[Checkboxes]
US: NIH - NHGRI
US: NIH - NCI
US: NIH - NIAID
US: NIH - Other
US: NSF
EU: Horizon
Industry / Startup
Healthcare / Hospital
Other
14.
Of the changes made over the last two years, are there some that you didn't like or would like to provide feedback on?
Software features: Interactive tutorials, maveDB heatmaps, feature details pop up in window, "Download > All track data", right-click on transcript + jump-to-exon/jump-to-codon, change color on RefSeq track, new tooltips, ENSTxxx in HGVS, one BLAT track per query, gear icon next to tracks
New human annotation tracks: Llong read RNAs from Gencode and ENCODE, variants in publications: pubTator / VarChat / Avada / Varaico, panelApp AU, variant impact scores: mutScore/M-CAP/Bayes-Del/AlphaMissense,  PFAM on the Gencode transcripts, gnomAD 4 and gnomAD pEXT, Pan-genome tracks, Pseudogene parents, NCBI Orthologs, Denovo-db, Mitomap, Splice variant impact scores AbSplice/spliceAI/spliceVarDb,  Civic Cancer Variants,  Decipher Population CNVs, Genome-in-a-bottle problematic regions, CADD 1.7 update, NumTS hg38, ENIGMA VCEPs, dosage Sensitivity, deprecated RefSeq transcripts, eMerge Polygenic Risk Scores, COSMIC.
Non-human genomes: 20,000 more genomes with basic annotation tracks.
Track hubs and API: bedMethyl format support, updated .hic version, bigBed/bigGenePred "decorators", bigDbSnp/bigMaf/bigChain in the API
15.
If you have any specific issues or concerns, please describe them here. You can leave your email address if you would like a response from us.
16.
Want to join a mailing list to test future features?
We may reach out 2-3 times a year with links to upcoming features or new data tracks before we release them. If so, enter your email address below and, optionally, topics of interest. You can mention topics that interest, so we can then send you only feature or annotation tracks within that domain. For medical: medical genetics, track hubs, non-coding annotations, transcript models, vertebrate assemblies.
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