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   2 Scientific software usage in neuroscience research
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   4
   5 This survey should take about five minutes. Immediately after submission you
   6 will be presented with some statistics on previous responses. Please try to
   7 answer as many questions as you can, but don't worry if you cannot answer all
   8 of them. *You need to have javascript enabled in your browser for this survey.*
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  58
  59 Personal background
  60 -------------------
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  64    <table>
  65    <tr class="oddrow">
  66    <td>
  67
  68 Which country are you working in?
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  72    </td><td class="response">
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  75    :file: select_country.inc
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  79    </td></tr><tr><td>
  80
  81 Where are you working?
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  85    </td><td class="response">
  86    <select name="bg_employer" size="1">
  87    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
  88    <option value="edu_priv" label="Higher education (privately funded)">Higher education (privately funded)</option>
  89    <option value="edu_pub" label="Higher education (publicly funded)">Higher education (publicly funded)</option>
  90    <option value="research_priv" label="Research institution (privately funded)">Research institution (privately funded)</option>
  91    <option value="research_pub" label="Research institution (publicly funded)">Research institution (publicly funded)</option>
  92    <option value="company" label="Company">Company</option>
  93    </select>
  94    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
  95
  96 What is your position?
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 100    </td><td class="response">
 101    <select name="bg_position" size="1">
 102    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 103    <option value="undergrad" label="Undergraduate student">Undergraduate student</option>
 104    <option value="graduate" label="PhD student">PhD student</option>
 105    <option value="postdoc" label="Postdoc">Postdoc</option>
 106    <option value="professor" label="Professor/Supervisor">Professor/Supervisor</option>
 107    <option value="ra" label="Research assistant">Research assistant</option>
 108    <option value="researcher" label="Other researcher">Other researcher</option>
 109    <option value="sysadmin" label="System administrator">System administrator</option>
 110    </select>
 111    </td></tr><tr><td>
 112
 113 What type of data are you working with? Please check all items that apply.
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 116
 117    </td><td class="response">
 118    <table><tr><td>
 119    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="behav" />Behavioral<br />
 120    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="genetic" />Genetic<br />
 121    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="mri" />MRI/fMRI/DTI<br />
 122    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="meeg" />EEG/MEG<br />
 123    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="pet" />PET/SPECT<br />
 124    </td><td>
 125    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="ephys" />Electrophysiology<br />
 126    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="spectro" />Microspectroscopy<br />
 127    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="simulation" />Computational modeling/Simulations<br />
 128    <input type="checkbox" name="bg_datamod" value="otherdm" />
 129    <input name="bg_datamod_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 130    </td></tr></table>
 131    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 132
 133 Are you developing software that is intended to be used by other researchers?
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 136
 137    </td><td class="response">
 138    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="yes" />Yes</span>
 139    <span><input type="radio" name="bg_developer" value="no" checked="checked" />No</span>
 140    </td>
 141    </tr>
 142    </table>
 143
 144 Personal scientific software environment
 145 ----------------------------------------
 146
 147 Here are a few questions about your personal scientific software environment
 148 for research activities like data acquisition, computational modeling, and data
 149 analysis. You might be running this on your laptop, desktop, personal
 150 workstation or any other machine where **you decide** what software you are
 151 using, and you typically also have permission to **install it yourself**.  If
 152 you are operating different environments, please describe the one that you find
 153 most productive for your research purposes. If you don't have a machine that
 154 you administer yourself, instead, please indicate what kind of scientific
 155 software environment you would like to be doing your research in.
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 158
 159    <table>
 160    <tr class="oddrow">
 161    <td>
 162
 163 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in this software
 164 environment as opposed to any other environment that you migh have access to?
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 168    </td><td class="response">
 169    <select name="pers_time" size="1">
 170    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 171    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't have this environment">None/I don't have this environment</option>
 172    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 173    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 174    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 175    </select>
 176    </td></tr><tr><td>
 177
 178 What type of hardware are you using?
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 181
 182    </td><td class="response">
 183    <select name="pers_hardware" size="1">
 184    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 185    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 186    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 187    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 188    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 189    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 190    </select>
 191    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 192
 193 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 196
 197    </td><td class="response">
 198    <select name="pers_os" size="1">
 199
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 201    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 204
 205    </select>
 206    </td></tr><tr><td>
 207
 208 How much time do you spend each month on maintaining this environment?  This
 209 includes the time spent on operating system (security) upgrades, as well as
 210 installing and updating scientific software.
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 213
 214    </td><td class="response">
 215    <input name="pers_maint_time" type="text" size="3" maxlength="3"> hours per month
 216    </td>
 217    </tr>
 218    </table>
 219
 220 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 221
 222 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements.
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 225
 226    <table>
 227    <tr><th colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal">
 228
 229 *I prefer this particular scientific software environment because ...*
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 232
 233    </th></tr><tr class="oddrow">
 234    <td class="task">
 235
 236 ... the developers of an important research software recommend it
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 239
 240    </td><td class="response">
 241    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="3" /></div>
 242    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="2" /></div>
 243    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="1" /></div>
 244    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r1" value="0" /></div>
 245    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 246
 247
 248 ... of the variety of available research software for this environment
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 251
 252    </td><td class="response">
 253    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="3" /></div>
 254    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="2" /></div>
 255    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="1" /></div>
 256    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r2" value="0" /></div>
 257    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 258
 259
 260 ... of the availibility of commercial support
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 263
 264    </td><td class="response">
 265    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="3" /></div>
 266    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="2" /></div>
 267    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="1" /></div>
 268    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r3" value="0" /></div>
 269    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 270
 271
 272 ... many of my colleagues use something similar
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 275
 276    </td><td class="response">
 277    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="3" /></div>
 278    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="2" /></div>
 279    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="1" /></div>
 280    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r4" value="0" /></div>
 281    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 282
 283
 284 ... it is popular and I can get solutions for problems from web forums and mailing lists
 285
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 287
 288    </td><td class="response">
 289    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="3" /></div>
 290    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="2" /></div>
 291    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="1" /></div>
 292    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r5" value="0" /></div>
 293    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 294
 295
 296 ... I rely on a particular application that only runs in this environment
 297
 298 .. raw:: html
 299
 300    </td><td class="response">
 301    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="3" /></div>
 302    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="2" /></div>
 303    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="1" /></div>
 304    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r6" value="0" /></div>
 305    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 306
 307
 308 ... it has adequate support for all required hardware
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 311
 312    </td><td class="response">
 313    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="3" /></div>
 314    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="2" /></div>
 315    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="1" /></div>
 316    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r7" value="0" /></div>
 317    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 318
 319
 320 ... I have the necessary technical skills to maintain this environment myself
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 323
 324    </td><td class="response">
 325    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="3" /></div>
 326    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="2" /></div>
 327    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="1" /></div>
 328    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="pers_r8" value="0" /></div>
 329    </td>
 330    </tr>
 331    </table>
 332
 333
 334 Managed scientific software environment
 335 ---------------------------------------
 336
 337 The following questions are about a managed environment of scientific software
 338 that is provided to you to carry out computing and data analysis. Such an
 339 environment is typically managed by **dedicated IT staff**, and **you don't
 340 have permissions to install arbitrary software**. This environment may be
 341 shared by many researchers in a lab, a whole research institution, or even be
 342 publicly accessible. If you have access to multiple environments of this kind,
 343 please describe the one that offers most support for your particular research
 344 purposes.
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 349    <table class="questionaire">
 350    <tr class="oddrow">
 351    <td>
 352
 353 What fraction of time do you spend in this environment during your research
 354 activities?
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 358    </td><td class="response">
 359    <select name="man_time" size="1">
 360    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 361    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 362    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 363    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 364    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 365    </select>
 366    </td></tr><tr><td>
 367
 368 What type of hardware is this software environment running on?
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 371
 372    </td><td class="response">
 373    <select name="man_hardware" size="1">
 374    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 375    <option value="laptop" label="Laptop/Portable device">Laptop/Portable device</option>
 376    <option value="desktop" label="Commodity desktop">Commodity desktop</option>
 377    <option value="workstation" label="High-performance workstation">High-performance workstation</option>
 378    <option value="cluster" label="Compute cluster">Compute cluster</option>
 379    <option value="grid" label="Grid/Cloud-computing facility">Grid/Cloud-computing facility</option>
 380    </select>
 381    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 382
 383
 384 What operating system is this environment running on?
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 386 .. raw:: html
 387
 388    </td><td class="response">
 389    <select name="man_os" size="1">
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 392    :file: select_os_options.inc
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 394 .. raw:: html
 395
 396    </select>
 397    </td>
 398    </tr>
 399    </table>
 400
 401 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 402
 403 How much do you agree to the following statements?
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 406
 407    <table>
 408    <tr class="oddrow">
 409    <td class="task">
 410
 411 This environment provides me with the best available tools for my research
 412
 413 .. raw:: html
 414
 415    </td><td class="response">
 416    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="3" /></div>
 417    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="2" /></div>
 418    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="1" /></div>
 419    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r1" value="0" /></div>
 420    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 421
 422 The support staff solves all my technical problems and addresses my demands in
 423 a timely fashion
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 425 .. raw:: html
 426
 427    </td><td class="response">
 428    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="3" /></div>
 429    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="2" /></div>
 430    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="1" /></div>
 431    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r2" value="0" /></div>
 432    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 433
 434 There are always enough licenses for essential commerical software tools
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 436 .. raw:: html
 437
 438    </td><td class="response">
 439    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="3" /></div>
 440    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="2" /></div>
 441    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="1" /></div>
 442    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r3" value="0" /></div>
 443    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 444
 445 I need to deploy additional software to be able to perform my research in this environment
 446
 447 .. raw:: html
 448
 449    </td><td class="response">
 450    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="3" /></div>
 451    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="2" /></div>
 452    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="1" /></div>
 453    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r4" value="0" /></div>
 454    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 455
 456
 457 Using this managed environment is more cost effective than operating a suitable
 458 environment myself
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 460 .. raw:: html
 461
 462    </td><td class="response">
 463    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="3" /></div>
 464    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="2" /></div>
 465    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="1" /></div>
 466    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="man_r5" value="0" /></div>
 467    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 468
 469 .. raw:: html
 470
 471    </td>
 472    </tr>
 473    </table>
 474
 475 Virtualization
 476 --------------
 477
 478 The following questions are about your usage of systems for hardware
 479 virtualization in your research -- so-called **virtual machines**.
 480 Virtualization is a technology that allows running more than one operating
 481 systems on one machine at the same time.
 482
 483 .. raw:: html
 484
 485    <table>
 486    <tr class="oddrow">
 487    <td class="task">
 488
 489 What fraction of your research activity time do you spend in a virtual
 490 environment as opposed to any other environment?
 491
 492 .. raw:: html
 493
 494    </td><td class="response">
 495    <select name="virt_time" size="1">
 496    <option value="none" selected="selected" label="Select an option">Select an option</option>
 497    <option value="notime" label="None/I don't use this">None/I don't use this</option>
 498    <option value="little" label="Less then half of the time">Less then half of the time</option>
 499    <option value="most" label="More than half of the time">More than half of the time</option>
 500    <option value="always" label="All of the time">All of the time</option>
 501    </select>
 502    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 503
 504 Which products for virtualization are you using?
 505
 506 .. raw:: html
 507
 508    </td><td class="response">
 509    <table><tr><td>
 510    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="vmware" />VMWare<br />
 511    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualbox" />VirtualBox<br />
 512    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="parallels" />Parallels<br />
 513    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="qemu" />QEMU<br />
 514    </td><td>
 515    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="virtualpc" />Virtual PC<br />
 516    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="xen" />Xen<br />
 517    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="kvm" />KVM<br />
 518    <input type="checkbox" name="virt_prod" value="othervm" />
 519    <input name="virt_other" type="text" size="20" maxlength="40">
 520    </td></tr></table>
 521    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>
 522
 523 What **guest operating system** is running inside virtual machine?
 524
 525 .. raw:: html
 526
 527    </td><td class="response">
 528    <select name="virt_guest_os" size="1">
 529
 530 .. raw:: html
 531    :file: select_os_options.inc
 532
 533 .. raw:: html
 534
 535    </select>
 536    </td></tr><tr><td>
 537
 538 What **host operating system** are the virtual machines running on?
 539
 540 .. raw:: html
 541
 542    </td><td class="response">
 543    <select name="virt_host_os" size="1">
 544
 545 .. raw:: html
 546    :file: select_os_options.inc
 547
 548 .. raw:: html
 549
 550    </select>
 551    </td></tr></table>
 552
 553 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 554
 555 What are your reasons for employing virtualization in you research?
 556 Please indicate how much you agree to the following statements
 557
 558 .. raw:: html
 559
 560    <table>
 561    <tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 562
 563 I can run software that is otherwise incompatible with my system
 564
 565 .. raw:: html
 566
 567    </td><td class="response">
 568    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="3" /></div>
 569    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="2" /></div>
 570    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="1" /></div>
 571    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r1" value="0" /></div>
 572    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 573
 574 I have the ability to easily create a snapshot of my whole analysis environment
 575
 576 .. raw:: html
 577
 578    </td><td class="response">
 579    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="3" /></div>
 580    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="2" /></div>
 581    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="1" /></div>
 582    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r2" value="0" /></div>
 583    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="task">
 584
 585
 586 I can take my complete analysis environment with me and run it on different
 587 machines
 588
 589 .. raw:: html
 590
 591    </td><td class="response">
 592    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="3" /></div>
 593    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="2" /></div>
 594    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="1" /></div>
 595    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r3" value="0" /></div>
 596    </td></tr><tr><td class="task">
 597
 598 The performance of a virtual machine is sufficient for routine application in my
 599 research
 600
 601 .. raw:: html
 602
 603    </td><td class="response">
 604    <div class="rating">Definitely agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="3" /></div>
 605    <div class="rating">Mostly agree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="2" /></div>
 606    <div class="rating">Mostly disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="1" /></div>
 607    <div class="rating">Definitely disagree<br /><input type="radio" name="virt_r4" value="0" /></div>
 608    </td>
 609    </tr>
 610    </table>
 611
 612
 613 Resources for scientific software
 614 ---------------------------------
 615
 616 Where do you obtain scientific software that you employ in your research? Please
 617 check all items that apply
 618
 619 .. raw:: html
 620
 621    <table class="questionaire">
 622    <tr class="oddrow">
 623    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="vendor" /></td><td>
 624
 625 Directly from vendor or project website
 626
 627 .. raw:: html
 628
 629    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="retailer" /></td><td>
 630
 631 Retailer
 632
 633 .. raw:: html
 634
 635    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="os" /></td><td>
 636
 637 Comes with the operating system
 638
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 640
 641    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cpan" /></td><td>
 642
 643 `Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) <http://www.cpan.org>`_
 644
 645 .. raw:: html
 646
 647    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="cran" /></td><td>
 648
 649 `Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) <http://cran.r-project.org>`_
 650
 651 .. raw:: html
 652
 653    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="epel" /></td><td>
 654
 655 `Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_
 656
 657 .. raw:: html
 658
 659    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="fink" /></td><td>
 660
 661 `Fink <http://www.finkproject.org>`_
 662
 663 .. raw:: html
 664
 665    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="freebsdports" /></td><td>
 666
 667 `FreeBSD ports <http://www.freebsd.org/ports/science.html>`_
 668
 669 .. raw:: html
 670
 671    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="incf" /></td><td>
 672
 673 `International neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) Research Tools <http://www.incf.org/resources/research-tools>`_
 674
 675 .. raw:: html
 676
 677    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="macports" /></td><td>
 678
 679 `Macports <http://www.macports.org>`_
 680
 681 .. raw:: html
 682
 683    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="matlabcentral" /></td><td>
 684
 685 `Matlab Central <http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral>`_
 686
 687 .. raw:: html
 688
 689    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="neurodebian" /></td><td>
 690
 691 `NeuroDebian <http://neuro.debian.net>`_
 692
 693 .. raw:: html
 694
 695    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="nitrc" /></td><td>
 696
 697 `Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) <http://www.nitrc.org>`_
 698
 699 .. raw:: html
 700
 701    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pypi" /></td><td>
 702
 703 `Python Package Index (PyPi) <http://pypi.python.org>`_
 704
 705 .. raw:: html
 706
 707    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="pythonbundles" /></td><td>
 708
 709 Python bundles: `Enthought Python <http://www.enthought.com/products/index.php>`_, `Python(x,y) <http://www.pythonxy.com/>`_
 710
 711 .. raw:: html
 712
 713    </td></tr><tr><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="sourceforge" /></td><td>
 714
 715 `Sourceforge <http://www.sourceforge.net>`_
 716
 717 .. raw:: html
 718
 719    </td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="software_resource" value="otherres" /></td><td>
 720    <input name="software_resource_other" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200">
 721    </td></tr></table>
 722
 723 Software selection
 724 ------------------
 725
 726 Please select all software that you are using in your research.
 727
 728 Generic computing/scripting/programming environments
 729 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 730
 731 .. raw:: html
 732
 733    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 734    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="cpp" />C/C++</td>
 735    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="fortran" />Fortran</td>
 736    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="idl" />IDL</td>
 737    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="labview" />LabVIEW</td>
 738    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="lisrel" />LISREL</td>
 739    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="maple" />Maple</td>
 740    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 741    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathcad" />Mathcad</td>
 742    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="mathematica" />Mathematica</td>
 743    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="matlab" />Matlab</td>
 744    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="octave" />Octave</td>
 745    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="perl" />Perl</td>
 746    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="python" />Python</td>
 747    </tr><tr>
 748    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="r" />R</td>
 749    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="ruby" />Ruby</td>
 750    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scilab" />Scilab</td>
 751    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="spss" />SPSS</td>
 752    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="scirun" />SCIRun</td>
 753    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_general" value="shell" />Shell scripting</td>
 754    </tr></table>
 755
 756 Distributed computing - frameworks and controllers
 757 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 758
 759 .. raw:: html
 760
 761    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 762    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="sge" />SGE</td>
 763    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="torque" />Torque/OpenPBS/Maui</td>
 764    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="condor" />Condor</td>
 765    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="globus" />Globus</td>
 766    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="mpi" />MPI (any)</td>
 767    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_dc" value="ipython" />IPython</td>
 768    </tr></table>
 769
 770 Imaging
 771 ~~~~~~~
 772
 773 .. raw:: html
 774
 775    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 776    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="3dslicer" />3D Slicer</td>
 777    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="afni" />AFNI</td>
 778    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="aeskulap" />Aeskulap</td>
 779    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="amide" />Amide</td>
 780    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 781    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="birn" />BIRN Tools</td>
 782    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainstools" />BRAINS Tools</td>
 783    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="bioimgsuite" />Bioimage Suite</td>
 784    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainmap" />BrainMap</td>
 785    </tr><tr>
 786    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvisa" />BrainVISA/Anatomist</td>
 787    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="brainvoyager" />BrainVoyager</td>
 788    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="cmtk" />CMTK</td>
 789    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="camino" />Camino</td>
 790    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 791    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="caret" />Caret</td>
 792    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="connectomviewer" />ConnectomeViewer</td>
 793    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dsi" />DSI Studio</td>
 794    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="dtitk" />DTI-TK</td>
 795    </tr><tr>
 796    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="trackvis" />Diffusion Toolkit/Trackvis</td>
 797    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fsl" />FSL</td>
 798    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="fiji" />Fiji</td>
 799    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="freesurfer" />FreeSurfer</td>
 800    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 801    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="itksnap" />ITK-SNAP</td>
 802    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="imagej" />ImageJ</td>
 803    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="invesalius" />Invesalius</td>
 804    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="loni" />LONI</td>
 805    </tr><tr>
 806    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="lipsia" />Lipsia</td>
 807    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mango" />Mango</td>
 808    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mipav" />MIPAV/JIST</td>
 809    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mni" />MNI tools</td>
 810    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 811    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mricron" />MRIcron</td>
 812    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mrtrix" />MRtrix</td>
 813    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="mvpa" />Matlab MVPA toolbox</td>
 814    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nibabel" />NiBabel/PyNIfTI</td>
 815    </tr><tr>
 816    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="nipy" />NiPy/NiTime/DiPy/NiPype</td>
 817    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="pymvpa" />PyMVPA</td>
 818    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="rest" />REST</td>
 819    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="spm" />SPM</td>
 820    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 821    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="v3d" />V3D</td>
 822    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_img" value="voxbo" />VoxBo</td>
 823    </tr></table>
 824
 825 Data management
 826 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 827
 828 .. raw:: html
 829
 830    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 831    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="xnat" />XNAT/PyXNAT/...</td>
 832    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_datamanage" value="hid" />Human Imaging Database (HID)</td>
 833    </tr></table>
 834
 835 Neural systems modeling
 836 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 837
 838 .. raw:: html
 839
 840    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 841    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="brian" />Brian</td>
 842    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="ecanse" />Siemens ECANSE</td>
 843    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="emergent" />Emergent NNSS</td>
 844    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="genesis" />Genesis</td>
 845    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iNVT" />iNVT</td>
 846    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="iqr" />iqr</td>
 847    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 848    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="moose" />Moose</td>
 849    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="nest" />NEST</td>
 850    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuroml" />NeuroML</td>
 851    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neuron" />NEURON</td>
 852    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="neurosolutions" />NeuroSolutions</td>
 853    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pcsim" />PCSIM</td>
 854    </tr><tr>
 855    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="peltarion" />Peltarion</td>
 856    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="psics" />PSICS</td>
 857    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="pynn" />PyNN</td>
 858    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="snnap" />SNNAP</td>
 859    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="snns" />SNNS</td>
 860    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="topographica" />Topographica</td>
 861    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 862    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_neusys" value="xnbc" />XNBC</td>
 863    </tr></table>
 864
 865 Electrophysiology, MEG/EEG
 866 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 867
 868 .. raw:: html
 869
 870    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 871    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="asa" />ASA</td>
 872    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="besa" />BESA</td>
 873    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="biosig" />BioSig</td>
 874    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainstorm" />BrainStorm</td>
 875    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="brainvisionanalyzer" />Brainvision Analyzer</td>
 876    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="chronus" />Chronux</td>
 877    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 878    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="eeglab" />EEGLAB</td>
 879    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="elekta" />Elekta Neuromag</td>
 880    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="fieldtrip" />Fieldtrip</td>
 881    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="klustakwik" />KlustaKwik</td>
 882    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="loreta" />LORETA/sLORETA</td>
 883    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mne" />MNE suite</td>
 884    </tr><tr>
 885    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="mclust" />MClust</td>
 886    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroexplorer" />NeuroExplorer</td>
 887    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="neuroshare" />Neuroshare</td>
 888    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openmeeg" />OpenMEEG</td>
 889    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="openelectrophy" />Openelectrophy</td>
 890    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="plexon" />Plexon</td>
 891    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 892    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="rtxi" />RTXI</td>
 893    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="relacs" />Relacs</td>
 894    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_electro" value="trellis" />Trellis-neuro</td>
 895    </tr></table>
 896
 897 Brain-computer interface
 898 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 899
 900 .. raw:: html
 901
 902    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 903    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="bci2000" />BCI2000</td>
 904    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="openvibe" />OpenVIBE</td>
 905    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_bci" value="pyff" />Pyff</td>
 906    </tr></table>
 907
 908 Hardware interface/Data acquisition
 909 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 910
 911 .. raw:: html
 912
 913    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 914    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="comedi" />Comedi</td>
 915    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="epics" />EPICS</td>
 916    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_acq" value="mx" />MX</td>
 917    </tr></table>
 918
 919 Real-time solutions
 920 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 921
 922 .. raw:: html
 923
 924    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 925    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtai" />RTAI</td>
 926    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="xenomai" />Xenomai</td>
 927    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="rtlinux" />RTLinux</td>
 928    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_rt" value="preempt_rt" />PREEMPT_RT</td>
 929    </tr></table>
 930
 931 Psychophysics/Experiment control
 932 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 933
 934 .. raw:: html
 935
 936    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 937    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="dmdx" />DMDX</td>
 938    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="eprime" />E-Prime</td>
 939    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="presentation" />Presentation</td>
 940    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychopy" />PsychoPy</td>
 941    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="pyepl" />PyEPL</td>
 942    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psychtoolbox" />Psychtoolbox</td>
 943    </tr><tr class="oddrow">
 944    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="psytoolkit" />Psytoolkit</td>
 945    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="opensesame" />OpenSesame</td>
 946    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="visionegg" />VisionEgg</td>
 947    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_psychphys" value="tscope" />Tscope</td>
 948    </tr></table>
 949
 950 Other
 951 ~~~~~
 952
 953 .. raw:: html
 954
 955    <table class="questionaire"><tr>
 956    <td class="response"><input type="checkbox" name="sw_other" value="othersw" />
 957    <input name="sw_other_name" type="text" size="40" maxlength="200"> <span style="font-size:70%">(comma-separated list)</span></td>
 958    </tr></table>
 959
 960 ---------------------------------------------------------------
 961
 962 .. raw:: html
 963
 964    <input id="submit_button" value="Submit survey" type="submit">
 965    <div id="server_response"></div>
 966    </form>
 967
 968
 969