1999 VMD Survey


	1999 VMD Survey

VMD is Copyright © 1995-1999 Theoretical Biophysics Group and the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Please fill out this form as completely as possible. The information you provide to us will be confidential. A report summarizing the results will be posted here after the completion of the survey.

1999 VMD Survey:

Dear VMD user, our records indicate that you have recently downloaded a copy of VMD 1.2 from our site. We are delighted that you are interested in our software and hope that it serves you well. As part of our ongoing efforts to ensure that our programs are up-to-date, useful and of high quality, we are seeking feedback from all our VMD users. Your comments will help us develop VMD in ways which are most responsive to your needs.

We would appreciate if you take a few minutes to complete the following brief questionnaire by March 15, 1999. Please take care to enter your correct email address to avoid receiving duplicates of survey related mail.

For further information feel free to contact our developers at vmd@ks.uiuc.edu

Please respond by March 15, 1999

E-mail address:

Affiliation:

Academic

Government

Industrial

Other (specify)

The work I do with VMD is funded (at least partially) by NIH:

Yes No

I am currently using VMD on:

AIX HP-UX IRIX Linux Solaris

I would also like to use VMD on:

Windows 95/98 Windows NT Macintosh Digital Unix

I use VMD primarily for:

Research Teaching Commerce Personal

The number of people using VMD at my site is:

1 2-4 5-10 11-20 21 or more

I use VMD because it

a) meets my needs 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
b) is free 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
c) is user friendly 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
d) is better than other molecular
graphics programs 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree

Rate the usefulness of VMD PLANNED features to your work:

a) Interacting with running MD simulations 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important
b) On-the-fly recalculation of bonds 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important
c) Crystallographic symmetry operations 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important
d) Inter-molecule selections 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important
e) Additional scripting support (e.g. Python) 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important
f) Display of isosurfaces, density fields 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important
g) Texture maps on molecular structures 1 2 3 4 5
Unimportant Very Important

Check the box that best reflects your level of agreement with the statements describing VMD:

a) VMD developers respond to my requests 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
b) VMD support meets my expectations 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
c) VMD web pages are instructive 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
d) VMD documentation is clear 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
e) VMD documentation is complete 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree
f) The VMD-L mailing list is useful 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree

I would benefit from using VMD with the following tools in my work:

Quanta Insight Gauss-View Spartan Xmol
Molden Amber Charmm NAMD XPLOR

I am satisfied with VMD

1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Disagree Strongly Agree

I first heard of VMD from:

Friends and colleagues Publications Web announcements
Professional meetings Other

I would prefer to be informed of VMD news by:

VMD web page E-mail Usenet Newsgroups

What suggestions do you have for improving VMD and VMD support:

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a) meets my needs		1	2	3	4	5
a) meets my needs	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
b) is free		1	2	3	4	5
b) is free	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
c) is user friendly		1	2	3	4	5
c) is user friendly	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
d) is better than other molecular graphics programs		1	2	3	4	5
d) is better than other molecular graphics programs	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree

a) Interacting with running MD simulations		1	2	3	4	5
a) Interacting with running MD simulations	Unimportant						Very Important
b) On-the-fly recalculation of bonds		1	2	3	4	5
b) On-the-fly recalculation of bonds	Unimportant						Very Important
c) Crystallographic symmetry operations		1	2	3	4	5
c) Crystallographic symmetry operations	Unimportant						Very Important
d) Inter-molecule selections		1	2	3	4	5
d) Inter-molecule selections	Unimportant						Very Important
e) Additional scripting support (e.g. Python)		1	2	3	4	5
e) Additional scripting support (e.g. Python)	Unimportant						Very Important
f) Display of isosurfaces, density fields		1	2	3	4	5
f) Display of isosurfaces, density fields	Unimportant						Very Important
g) Texture maps on molecular structures		1	2	3	4	5
g) Texture maps on molecular structures	Unimportant						Very Important

a) VMD developers respond to my requests		1	2	3	4	5
a) VMD developers respond to my requests	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
b) VMD support meets my expectations		1	2	3	4	5
b) VMD support meets my expectations	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
c) VMD web pages are instructive		1	2	3	4	5
c) VMD web pages are instructive	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
d) VMD documentation is clear		1	2	3	4	5
d) VMD documentation is clear	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
e) VMD documentation is complete		1	2	3	4	5
e) VMD documentation is complete	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree
f) The VMD-L mailing list is useful		1	2	3	4	5
f) The VMD-L mailing list is useful	Strongly Disagree						Strongly Agree

Quanta	Insight	Gauss-View	Spartan	Xmol
Molden	Amber	Charmm	NAMD	XPLOR

Friends and colleagues	Publications	Web announcements
Professional meetings	Other