BMTK / SONATA / VND Survey

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1. What is your name? *

2. What is your email address? *

3. What is your research institution or company?

4. What is your career stage?

a. Undergraduate Student

b. Research Associate

c. Master's Student

d. PhD Student

e. Postdoc

f. Staff Scientist

g. Software Engineer

h. Professor/PI

i. Other (please specify in the box below)

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4 (cont). career stage (if specified other above)

5. How long have you been using Brain Modeling Toolkit (BMTK)?

a. Less than 1 year

b. 1-2 years

c. More than 2 years

d. Tried BMTK but not actively using it

e. Have heard of BMTK but never tried it

f. Never heard of BMTK

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6. How long have you been using SONATA file format?

a. Less than 1 year

b. 1-2 years

c. More than 2 years

d. Tried SONATA but not actively using it

e. Have heard of SONATA but never tried it

f. Never heard of SONATA

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7. Have you used Visual Neuronal Dynamics (VND)?

a. Yes

b. No

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8. If you are not using BMTK, SONATA, or VND, please indicate the reasons why not (check all reasons that apply):

a. Failed to set up the environment

b. Insufficient documentation

c. Performance is not good enough

d. The software does not have the feature I need

e. People in my group use other software

f. Other reasons (please specify in the box below)

8 (cont). Other reasons why you are not using BMTK, SONATA, or VND?

9. Please describe your plans for using BMTK/SONATA/VND. Are you using existing models, or creating novel ones?

10. Which features of BMTK, SONATA, and/or VND do you find most useful for your work?

11. What features should be added to BMTK to help with your research?

12. What features should be added to SONATA to help with your research?

13. What features should be added to VND to help with your research?

14. What other neuroscience modeling software (e.g., NEURON, NEST) and/or file formats (e.g., NeuroML, NWB) are you using? If you do work with BMTK, do you use it with NEURON or NEST?

15. Do you use any cloud-based computing platforms (e.g., Colab, Azure)?

16. Are you aware of the upcoming Allen Institute Modeling Software Workshop? See here: https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/events-training/2022-modeling-workshop/

a. Yes

b. No

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17. Do you have any other advice or feedback for our team? How can we improve BMTK, SONATA, VND, and our service to the community?

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