1. Signaling Gateway Overview
Timo Hannay
Nature Publishing Group

2. The AfCS-Nature Signaling Gateway
Main sections of the site
Users
Traffic
Google ranking
Publishing industry reactions
Reader survey results
Signaling Update

3. Sections of the Signaling Gateway
Home,
Info & News
Molecule Pages
Signaling Update
AfCS Data Center
Hardware & software hosted at San Diego Supercomputer Center

4. Signaling Gateway Home Page

5. Signaling Gateway Users: Countries
Other (29%)
US (40%)
Japan
France
India
China
Canada
UK (8%)
Germany

6. Signaling Gateway Users: Research
Cell & molecular biology / biochemistry (27%)
Other (38%)
Cancer & oncology
Pharmacology & drug discovery
Immunology
Biotechnology & bioinformatics
Neuroscience & Neurology

7. Signaling Gateway Users: Positions
60% MD, PhD or MD-PhD
Seniority:
26% department/lab head, full/asst professor
32% research scientist or post doc
25% students
Institutions:
53% in universities
25% in industry, hospitals and government

8. Signaling Gateway Users
Molecule
Pages
Signaling
Update
Signaling
Gateway
Total
Gateway
Nature.com

9. Signaling Gateway Traffic
Update
Signaling
Gateway
Molecule
Pages

10. Google ranking

11. Google ranking

12. Publishing industry reactions
2003 ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation
EPS Insight industry newsletter
“[The] Signaling Gateway is the door to the future”
“There is convincing evidence here that a new publishing form is emerging”

13. Reader Survey Feedback
574 respondents in Oct-Nov 2003 (international mix: 37% from North America)
Signaling Gateway seen as very valuable (avg. score of 1.68 on scale of 1 = highly valuable, 5 = not valuable)
Site’s ease of use, speed and reliability rated highly
Scope of Signaling Update about right, but requests for more on interactions, kinases, techniques, apoptosis, …
68% aware of the AfCS and/or its aims
Open-ended comments overwhelmingly positive (“Thank you”, “Excellent service”, “Keep up the great work!”)

14. Signaling Update

15. Signaling Update Weekly E-alert
End of April 2004:
100,403
unique active addresses