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   2 Scientific software usage in neuroscience research
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  61
  62 Personal background
  63 -------------------
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  66
  67    <table>
  68    <tr class="oddrow">
  69    <td>
  70
  71 Which country are you working in?
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  74
  75    </td><td class="response">
  76
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  78    :file: select_country.inc
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  81
  82    </td></tr><tr><td>
  83
  84 Where are you working?
  85
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  87
  88    </td><td class="response">
  89    <select name="bg_employer" size="1">
  90    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
  91    <option value="edu_priv" label="Higher education (privately funded)">Higher education (privately funded)</option>
  92    <option value="edu_pub" label="Higher education (publicly funded)">Higher education (publicly funded)</option>
  93    <option value="research_priv" label="Research institution (privately funded)">Research institution (privately funded)</option>
  94    <option value="research_pub" label="Research institution (publicly funded)">Research institution (publicly funded)</option>
  95    <option value="company" label="Company">Company</option>
  96    </select>
  97    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
  98
  99 What is your position?
 100
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 102
 103    </td><td class="response">
 104    <select name="bg_position" size="1">
 105    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 106    <option value="undergrad" label="Undergraduate student">Undergraduate student</option>
 107    <option value="graduate" label="PhD student">PhD student</option>
 108    <option value="postdoc" label="Postdoc">Postdoc</option>
 109    <option value="professor" label="Professor/Supervisor">Professor/Supervisor</option>
 110    <option value="ra" label="Research assistant">Research assistant</option>
 111    <option value="researcher" label="Other researcher">Other researcher</option>
 112    <option value="sysadmin" label="System administrator">System administrator</option>
 113    </select>
 114    </td></tr><tr><td>
 115
 116 What type of data are you working with? Please check all items that apply.
 117
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 119
 120    </td><td class="response">
 121    <table><tr><td>
 122    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="behav" />Behavioral<br />
 123    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="genetic" />Genetic<br />
 124    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="mri" />MRI/fMRI/DTI<br />
 125    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="meeg" />EEG/MEG<br />
 126    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="pet" />PET/SPECT<br />
 127    </td><td>
 128    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="ephys" />Electrophysiology<br />
 129    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="spectro" />Microspectroscopy<br />
 130    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="simulation" />Computational modeling/Simulations<br />
 131    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="otherdm" />
 132    <input name="bg_datamod_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 133    </td></tr></table>
 134    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 135
 136 Are you developing software that is intended to be used by other researchers?
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 139
 140    </td><td class="response">
 141    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="yes" />Yes</span>
 142    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="no" checked="checked" />No</span>
 143    </td>
 144    </tr>
 145    </table>
 146
 147 Personal scientific software environment
 148 ----------------------------------------
 149
 150 Here are a few questions about your personal scientific software environment
 151 for research activities like data acquisition, computational modeling, and data
 152 analysis. You might be running this on your laptop, desktop, personal
 153 workstation or any other machine where **you decide** what software you are
 154 using, and you typically also have permission to **install it yourself**.  If
 155 you are operating different environments, please describe the one that you find
 156 most productive for your research purposes. If you don't have a machine that
 157 you administer yourself, instead, please indicate what kind of scientific
 158 software environment you would like to be doing your research in.
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 161
 162    <table>
 163    <tr class="oddrow">
 164    <td>
 165
 166 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in this software
 167 environment as opposed to any other environment that you might have access to?
 168
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 170
 171    </td><td class="response">
 172    <select name="pers_time" size="1">
 173    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 174    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't have this environment">None/I don't have this environment</option>
 175    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 176    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 177    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 178    </select>
 179    </td></tr><tr><td>
 180
 181 What type of hardware are you using?
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 184
 185    </td><td class="response">
 186    <select name="pers_hardware" size="1">
 187    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 188    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 189    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 190    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 191    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 192    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 193    </select>
 194    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 195
 196 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 199
 200    </td><td class="response">
 201    <select name="pers_os" size="1">
 202
 203 .. raw:: html
 204    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 206 .. raw:: html
 207
 208    </select>
 209    </td></tr><tr><td>
 210
 211 How much time do you spend each month on maintaining this environment?  This
 212 includes the time spent on operating system (security) upgrades, as well as
 213 installing and updating scientific software.
 214
 215 .. raw:: html
 216
 217    </td><td class="response">
 218    <input name="pers_maint_time" type="text" size="3" maxlength="3"> hours per month
 219    </td>
 220    </tr>
 221    </table>
 222
 223 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 224
 225 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements.
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 228
 229    <table>
 230    <tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal">
 231
 232 *I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...*
 233
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 235
 236    </th></tr><tr class="oddrow">
 237    <td class="task">
 238
 239 ... the developers of an important research software recommend it
 240
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 242
 243    </td><td class="response">
 244    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="3" /></div>
 245    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="2" /></div>
 246    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="1" /></div>
 247    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="0" /></div>
 248    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 249
 250
 251 ... of the variety of available research software for this environment
 252
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 254
 255    </td><td class="response">
 256    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="3" /></div>
 257    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="2" /></div>
 258    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="1" /></div>
 259    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="0" /></div>
 260    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 261
 262
 263 ... of the availability of commercial support
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 266
 267    </td><td class="response">
 268    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="3" /></div>
 269    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="2" /></div>
 270    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="1" /></div>
 271    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="0" /></div>
 272    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 273
 274
 275 ... many of my colleagues use something similar
 276
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 278
 279    </td><td class="response">
 280    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="3" /></div>
 281    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="2" /></div>
 282    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="1" /></div>
 283    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="0" /></div>
 284    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 285
 286
 287 ... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
 288
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 290
 291    </td><td class="response">
 292    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="3" /></div>
 293    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="2" /></div>
 294    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="1" /></div>
 295    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="0" /></div>
 296    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 297
 298
 299 ... I rely on a particular application that runs in this environment only
 300
 301 .. raw:: html
 302
 303    </td><td class="response">
 304    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="3" /></div>
 305    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="2" /></div>
 306    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="1" /></div>
 307    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="0" /></div>
 308    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 309
 310
 311 ... it has adequate support for all required hardware
 312
 313 .. raw:: html
 314
 315    </td><td class="response">
 316    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="3" /></div>
 317    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="2" /></div>
 318    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="1" /></div>
 319    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="0" /></div>
 320    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 321
 322
 323 ... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself
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 325 .. raw:: html
 326
 327    </td><td class="response">
 328    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="3" /></div>
 329    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="2" /></div>
 330    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="1" /></div>
 331    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="0" /></div>
 332    </td>
 333    </tr>
 334    </table>
 335
 336
 337 Managed scientific software environment
 338 ---------------------------------------
 339
 340 The following questions are about a managed environment of scientific software
 341 that is provided to you to carry out computing and data analysis. Such an
 342 environment is typically managed by **dedicated IT staff**, and **you don't
 343 have permissions to install arbitrary software**. This environment may be
 344 shared by many researchers in a lab, a whole research institution, or even be
 345 publicly accessible. If you have access to multiple environments of this kind,
 346 please describe the one that offers most support for your particular research
 347 purposes.
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 351
 352    <table class="questionaire">
 353    <tr class="oddrow">
 354    <td>
 355
 356 What fraction of time do you spend in this environment during your research
 357 activities?
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 360
 361    </td><td class="response">
 362    <select name="man_time" size="1">
 363    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 364    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 365    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 366    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 367    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 368    </select>
 369    </td></tr><tr><td>
 370
 371 What type of hardware is this software environment running on?
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 374
 375    </td><td class="response">
 376    <select name="man_hardware" size="1">
 377    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 378    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 379    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 380    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 381    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 382    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 383    </select>
 384    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 385
 386
 387 What operating system is this environment running on?
 388
 389 .. raw:: html
 390
 391    </td><td class="response">
 392    <select name="man_os" size="1">
 393
 394 .. raw:: html
 395    :file: select_os_options.inc
 396
 397 .. raw:: html
 398
 399    </select>
 400    </td>
 401    </tr>
 402    </table>
 403
 404 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 405
 406 How much do you agree to the following statements?
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 409
 410    <table>
 411    <tr class="oddrow">
 412    <td class="task">
 413
 414 This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
 415
 416 .. raw:: html
 417
 418    </td><td class="response">
 419    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="3" /></div>
 420    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="2" /></div>
 421    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="1" /></div>
 422    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="0" /></div>
 423    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 424
 425 The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in
 426 a timely fashion
 427
 428 .. raw:: html
 429
 430    </td><td class="response">
 431    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="3" /></div>
 432    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="2" /></div>
 433    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="1" /></div>
 434    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="0" /></div>
 435    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 436
 437 There are always enough licenses for essential commercial software tools
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 439 .. raw:: html
 440
 441    </td><td class="response">
 442    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="3" /></div>
 443    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="2" /></div>
 444    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="1" /></div>
 445    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="0" /></div>
 446    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 447
 448 I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment
 449
 450 .. raw:: html
 451
 452    </td><td class="response">
 453    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="3" /></div>
 454    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="2" /></div>
 455    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="1" /></div>
 456    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="0" /></div>
 457    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 458
 459
 460 Using this managed environment is more cost effective than operating a suitable
 461 environment myself
 462
 463 .. raw:: html
 464
 465    </td><td class="response">
 466    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="3" /></div>
 467    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="2" /></div>
 468    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="1" /></div>
 469    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="0" /></div>
 470    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 471
 472 .. raw:: html
 473
 474    </td>
 475    </tr>
 476    </table>
 477
 478 Virtualization
 479 --------------
 480
 481 The following questions are about your usage of systems for hardware
 482 virtualization in your research -- so-called **virtual machines**.
 483 Virtualization is a technology that allows running more than one operating
 484 systems on one machine at the same time.
 485
 486 .. raw:: html
 487
 488    <table>
 489    <tr class="oddrow">
 490    <td class="task">
 491
 492 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in a virtual
 493 environment as opposed to any other environment?
 494
 495 .. raw:: html
 496
 497    </td><td class="response">
 498    <select name="virt_time" size="1">
 499    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 500    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 501    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 502    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 503    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 504    </select>
 505    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 506
 507 Which products for virtualization are you using?
 508
 509 .. raw:: html
 510
 511    </td><td class="response">
 512    <table><tr><td>
 513    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="vmware" />VMWare<br />
 514    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualbox" />VirtualBox<br />
 515    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="parallels" />Parallels<br />
 516    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="qemu" />QEMU<br />
 517    </td><td>
 518    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualpc" />Virtual PC<br />
 519    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="xen" />Xen<br />
 520    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="kvm" />KVM<br />
 521    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="othervm" />
 522    <input name="virt_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 523    </td></tr></table>
 524    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 525
 526 What **guest operating system** is running inside virtual machine?
 527
 528 .. raw:: html
 529
 530    </td><td class="response">
 531    <select name="virt_guest_os" size="1">
 532
 533 .. raw:: html
 534    :file: select_os_options.inc
 535
 536 .. raw:: html
 537
 538    </select>
 539    </td></tr><tr><td>
 540
 541 What **host operating system** are the virtual machines running on?
 542
 543 .. raw:: html
 544
 545    </td><td class="response">
 546    <select name="virt_host_os" size="1">
 547
 548 .. raw:: html
 549    :file: select_os_options.inc
 550
 551 .. raw:: html
 552
 553    </select>
 554    </td></tr></table>
 555
 556 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 557
 558 What are your reasons for employing virtualization in you research?
 559 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements
 560
 561 .. raw:: html
 562
 563    <table>
 564    <tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 565
 566 I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
 567
 568 .. raw:: html
 569
 570    </td><td class="response">
 571    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="3" /></div>
 572    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="2" /></div>
 573    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="1" /></div>
 574    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="0" /></div>
 575    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 576
 577 I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
 578
 579 .. raw:: html
 580
 581    </td><td class="response">
 582    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="3" /></div>
 583    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="2" /></div>
 584    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="1" /></div>
 585    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="0" /></div>
 586    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 587
 588
 589 I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different
 590 machines
 591
 592 .. raw:: html
 593
 594    </td><td class="response">
 595    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="3" /></div>
 596    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="2" /></div>
 597    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="1" /></div>
 598    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="0" /></div>
 599    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 600
 601 The performance of a virtual machine is sufficient for routine application in my
 602 research
 603
 604 .. raw:: html
 605
 606    </td><td class="response">
 607    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="3" /></div>
 608    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="2" /></div>
 609    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="1" /></div>
 610    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="0" /></div>
 611    </td>
 612    </tr>
 613    </table>
 614
 615
 616 Resources for scientific software
 617 ---------------------------------
 618
 619 Where do you obtain scientific software that you employ in your research? Please
 620 check all items that apply
 621
 622 .. raw:: html
 623
 624    <table class="questionaire">
 625    <tr class="oddrow">
 626    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="vendor" /></td><td>
 627
 628 Directly from vendor or project website
 629
 630 .. raw:: html
 631
 632    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="retailer" /></td><td>
 633
 634 Retailer
 635
 636 .. raw:: html
 637
 638    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="os" /></td><td>
 639
 640 Comes with the operating system
 641
 642 .. raw:: html
 643
 644    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cpan" /></td><td>
 645
 646 `Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <http://www.cpan.org>`_
 647
 648 .. raw:: html
 649
 650    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cran" /></td><td>
 651
 652 `Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) <http://cran.r-project.org>`_
 653
 654 .. raw:: html
 655
 656    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="epel" /></td><td>
 657
 658 `Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
 659
 660 .. raw:: html
 661
 662    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="fink" /></td><td>
 663
 664 `Fink <http://www.finkproject.org>`_
 665
 666 .. raw:: html
 667
 668    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="freebsdports" /></td><td>
 669
 670 `FreeBSD ports <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/science.html>`_
 671
 672 .. raw:: html
 673
 674    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="incf" /></td><td>
 675
 676 `International neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Research Tools <http://www.incf.org/resources/research-tools>`_
 677
 678 .. raw:: html
 679
 680    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="macports" /></td><td>
 681
 682 `Macports <http://www.macports.org>`_
 683
 684 .. raw:: html
 685
 686    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="matlabcentral" /></td><td>
 687
 688 `Matlab Central <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral>`_
 689
 690 .. raw:: html
 691
 692    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="neurodebian" /></td><td>
 693
 694 `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_
 695
 696 .. raw:: html
 697
 698    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="nitrc" /></td><td>
 699
 700 `Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) <http://www.nitrc.org>`_
 701
 702 .. raw:: html
 703
 704    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pypi" /></td><td>
 705
 706 `Python Package Index (PyPi) <http://pypi.python.org>`_
 707
 708 .. raw:: html
 709
 710    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pythonbundles" /></td><td>
 711
 712 Python bundles: `Enthought Python <http://www.enthought.com/products/index.php>`_, `Python(x,y) <http://www.pythonxy.com/>`_
 713
 714 .. raw:: html
 715
 716    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="sourceforge" /></td><td>
 717
 718 `Sourceforge <http://www.sourceforge.net>`_
 719
 720 .. raw:: html
 721
 722    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="otherres" /></td><td>
 723    <input name="software_resource_other" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200">
 724    </td></tr></table>
 725
 726 Software selection
 727 ------------------
 728
 729 Please select all software that you are using in your research.
 730
 731 Generic computing/scripting/programming environments
 732 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 733
 734 .. raw:: html
 735
 736    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 737    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="cpp" />C/C++</td>
 738    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="fortran" />Fortran</td>
 739    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="idl" />IDL</td>
 740    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="java" />Java</td>
 741    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="labview" />LabVIEW</td>
 742    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="lisrel" />LISREL</td>
 743    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 744    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="maple" />Maple</td>
 745    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathcad" />Mathcad</td>
 746    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathematica" />Mathematica</td>
 747    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="matlab" />Matlab</td>
 748    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="octave" />Octave</td>
 749    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="perl" />Perl</td>
 750    </tr><tr>
 751    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="python" />Python</td>
 752    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="r" />R</td>
 753    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="ruby" />Ruby</td>
 754    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scilab" />Scilab</td>
 755    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="spss" />SPSS</td>
 756    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scirun" />SCIRun</td>
 757    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 758    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="shell" />Shell scripting</td>
 759    </tr></table>
 760
 761 Distributed computing - frameworks and controllers
 762 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 763
 764 .. raw:: html
 765
 766    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 767    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="sge" />SGE</td>
 768    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="torque" />Torque/OpenPBS/Maui</td>
 769    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="condor" />Condor</td>
 770    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="globus" />Globus</td>
 771    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="mpi" />MPI (any)</td>
 772    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="ipython" />IPython</td>
 773    </tr></table>
 774
 775 Imaging
 776 ~~~~~~~
 777
 778 .. raw:: html
 779
 780    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 781    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="3dslicer" />3D Slicer</td>
 782    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="afni" />AFNI</td>
 783    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="aeskulap" />Aeskulap</td>
 784    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="amide" />Amide</td>
 785    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 786    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="birn" />BIRN Tools</td>
 787    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainstools" />BRAINS Tools</td>
 788    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="bioimgsuite" />Bioimage Suite</td>
 789    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainmap" />BrainMap</td>
 790    </tr><tr>
 791    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvisa" />BrainVISA/Anatomist</td>
 792    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvoyager" />BrainVoyager</td>
 793    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="cmtk" />CMTK</td>
 794    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="camino" />Camino</td>
 795    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 796    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="caret" />Caret</td>
 797    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="connectomviewer" />ConnectomeViewer</td>
 798    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dsi" />DSI Studio</td>
 799    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dtitk" />DTI-TK</td>
 800    </tr><tr>
 801    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="trackvis" />Diffusion Toolkit/Trackvis</td>
 802    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fsl" />FSL</td>
 803    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fiji" />Fiji</td>
 804    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="freesurfer" />FreeSurfer</td>
 805    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 806    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="itksnap" />ITK-SNAP</td>
 807    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="imagej" />ImageJ</td>
 808    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="invesalius" />Invesalius</td>
 809    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="loni" />LONI</td>
 810    </tr><tr>
 811    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="lipsia" />Lipsia</td>
 812    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mango" />Mango</td>
 813    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mipav" />MIPAV/JIST</td>
 814    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mni" />MNI tools</td>
 815    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 816    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mricron" />MRIcron</td>
 817    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mrtrix" />MRtrix</td>
 818    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mvpa" />Matlab MVPA toolbox</td>
 819    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nibabel" />NiBabel/PyNIfTI</td>
 820    </tr><tr>
 821    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nipy" />NiPy/NiTime/DiPy/NiPype</td>
 822    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="pymvpa" />PyMVPA</td>
 823    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="rest" />REST</td>
 824    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="spm" />SPM</td>
 825    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 826    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="v3d" />V3D</td>
 827    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="voxbo" />VoxBo</td>
 828    </tr></table>
 829
 830 Data management
 831 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 832
 833 .. raw:: html
 834
 835    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 836    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="xnat" />XNAT/PyXNAT/...</td>
 837    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="hid" />Human Imaging Database (HID)</td>
 838    </tr></table>
 839
 840 Neural systems modeling
 841 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 842
 843 .. raw:: html
 844
 845    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 846    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="brian" />Brian</td>
 847    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="ecanse" />Siemens ECANSE</td>
 848    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="emergent" />Emergent NNSS</td>
 849    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="genesis" />Genesis</td>
 850    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iNVT" />iNVT</td>
 851    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iqr" />iqr</td>
 852    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 853    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="moose" />Moose</td>
 854    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nengo" />Nengo</td>
 855    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nest" />NEST</td>
 856    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuroml" />NeuroML</td>
 857    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuron" />NEURON</td>
 858    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neurosolutions" />NeuroSolutions</td>
 859    </tr><tr>
 860    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pcsim" />PCSIM</td>
 861    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="peltarion" />Peltarion</td>
 862    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="psics" />PSICS</td>
 863    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pynn" />PyNN</td>
 864    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="snnap" />SNNAP</td>
 865    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="snns" />SNNS</td>
 866    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 867    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="topographica" />Topographica</td>
 868    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="xnbc" />XNBC</td>
 869    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="xpp" />XPP/XPPAUT</td>
 870    </tr></table>
 871
 872 Electrophysiology, MEG/EEG
 873 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 874
 875 .. raw:: html
 876
 877    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 878    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="asa" />ASA</td>
 879    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="besa" />BESA</td>
 880    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="biosig" />BioSig</td>
 881    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainstorm" />BrainStorm</td>
 882    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainsuite" />BrainSuite</td>
 883    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainvisionanalyzer" />Brainvision Analyzer</td>
 884    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 885    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="chronus" />Chronux</td>
 886    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="eeglab" />EEGLAB</td>
 887    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="elekta" />Elekta Neuromag</td>
 888    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="emse" />EMSE</td>
 889    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fieldtrip" />Fieldtrip</td>
 890    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fmatoolbox" />FMAToolbox</td>
 891    </tr><tr>
 892    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klustakwik" />KlustaKwik</td>
 893    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klusters" />Klusters</td>
 894    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="loreta" />LORETA/sLORETA</td>
 895    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mclust" />MClust</td>
 896    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mne" />MNE suite</td>
 897    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="ndmanager" />NDManager</td>
 898    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 899    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroexplorer" />NeuroExplorer</td>
 900    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroscan" />Neuroscan</td>
 901    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroscope" />NeuroScope</td>
 902    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroshare" />Neuroshare</td>
 903    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openelectrophy" />Openelectrophy</td>
 904    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openmeeg" />OpenMEEG</td>
 905    </tr><tr>
 906    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="plexon" />Plexon</td>
 907    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="relacs" />Relacs</td>
 908    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="rtxi" />RTXI</td>
 909    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="trellis" />Trellis-neuro</td>
 910    </tr></table>
 911
 912 Brain-computer interface
 913 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 914
 915 .. raw:: html
 916
 917    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 918    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="bci2000" />BCI2000</td>
 919    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="openvibe" />OpenVIBE</td>
 920    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="pyff" />Pyff</td>
 921    </tr></table>
 922
 923 Hardware interface/Data acquisition
 924 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 925
 926 .. raw:: html
 927
 928    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 929    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="comedi" />Comedi</td>
 930    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="epics" />EPICS</td>
 931    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="mx" />MX</td>
 932    </tr></table>
 933
 934 Real-time solutions
 935 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 936
 937 .. raw:: html
 938
 939    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 940    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtai" />RTAI</td>
 941    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="xenomai" />Xenomai</td>
 942    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtlinux" />RTLinux</td>
 943    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="preempt_rt" />PREEMPT_RT</td>
 944    </tr></table>
 945
 946 Psychophysics/Experiment control
 947 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 948
 949 .. raw:: html
 950
 951    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 952    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="cogent" />Cogent</td>
 953    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="dmdx" />DMDX</td>
 954    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="eprime" />E-Prime</td>
 955    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="opensesame" />OpenSesame</td>
 956    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="presentation" />Presentation</td>
 957    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychopy" />PsychoPy</td>
 958    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychtoolbox" />Psychtoolbox</td>
 959    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 960    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psyscope" />PsyScope</td>
 961    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psytoolkit" />Psytoolkit</td>
 962    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="pyepl" />PyEPL</td>
 963    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="superlab" />SuperLab</td>
 964    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="tscope" />Tscope</td>
 965    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="visionegg" />VisionEgg</td>
 966    </tr></table>
 967
 968 Other
 969 ~~~~~
 970
 971 .. raw:: html
 972
 973    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 974    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_other" value="othersw" />
 975    <input name="sw_other_name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200"> <span style="font-size:70%">(comma-separated list)</span></td>
 976    </tr></table>
 977
 978 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 979
 980 .. raw:: html
 981
 982    <!-- <input id="submit_button" value="Submit survey" type="submit">
 983    <div id="server_response"></div>
 984    -->
 985    </form>
 986
 987
 988