Universal Browser Survey from NGRL Manchester

NGRL Manchester is currently conducting a survey into the use and benefits of the Universal Browser. The short survey includes 14 questions and allows users to provide feedback which will be used for future developments of the application. You can take part by submitting the online form. Closing date is 29th January 2010.

NGRL Manchester developed the Universal Browser to display variant information graphically on a DNA sequence. Other sources of variant data lacked good graphical displays, and rarely annotate variant data according to the standards used in diagnostic laboratories (HGVS nomenclature). This makes collection and comparison of data from different sources difficult for laboratory users, something that clinical scientists often wish to do this when analysing a variant. We therefore developed the UB as a common tool for variant display. It was designed to allowed tabulated as well as graphical displays of variant data, as this makes searching and comparison easier, and to allow data from multiple databases to be displayed alongside each other. The UB is used by many as the main method for searching DMuDB.

We are currently conducting a survey into the use and benefits of the Universal Browser. The short survey includes 14 questions and allows users to provide feedback which will be used for future developments of the application. You can take part by submitting the online form: http://ngrl.man.ac.uk/opinio/s?s=502 . Closing date is 29^th January 2010.