2008 GMOD Community Survey
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The first ever GMOD Community Survey was conducted in the last half of October 2008. Almost 100 people participated in the survey, providing feedback and suggestions on everything from GMOD Components to GMOD Meetings to hardware to research interests. This survey provides us with our first comprehensive view of the GMOD user community, what it is using and happy with, as well as what needs improvement and where we should focus our energies in the future.
Highlights of the survey are on this page. The complete report summarizing all multiple choice questions and free text answers is also available.
GMOD Components
The survey asked participants which GMOD Components they used. Here were the most popular responses:
| % Using | Component |
|---|---|
| 70.8% | GBrowse |
| 36.0% | Chado |
| 30.3% | Apollo |
| 21.3% | BioMart |
| 13.5% | Pathway Tools |
| 10.1% | CMap |
| 10.1% | GMODTools |
| 10.1% | InterMine |
GMOD Servers
The survey also asked several questions about the servers GMOD components are running on.
See Computing Requirements for recommendations.
Operating System
Operating systems in use had a definite skew towards Unix based systems:
| # Responses | Operating System |
|---|---|
| 55 | Linux |
| 8 | Mac OS X |
| 6 | Solaris |
| 2 | Windows |
| 1 | Unspecified Unix |
Current Server Sufficient?
We also asked users to describe their current server hardware (not summarized here, but [http://gmod.org/extras/2008GMODCommunitySurvey.html#GMOD_Servers available in the survey), and whether or not their servers were sufficient to meet their current needs. Responses to the latter question are summarized here.
| # Responses | Answer |
|---|---|
| ~30 | Sufficient (at least for now) |
| 8 | Need more memory |
| 8 | Faster/More CPUs/Servers |
| 5 | Faster/More disk |
