STEM Community Call December 4, 2014
On call: Jamie, Stefan, Chris, Kun, Nereyda, Judy
Next call: Thursday, January 8, 2015
1. STEM 2.0.2 up
- Next release delayed to January 9, 2015
- Bug fix for regression in latest dengue model available in weekly integration build
- Will be part of 2.0.3 in January
- Judy to post on newsgroup
- Dengue model being used by Kamesh, IBM India, in work for Singapore
- Possible talk on Ebola call by Kamesh on using STEM for this?
- Work with info from satellites on lighting at night showed ineffective as a measure of poverty in three villages (Ebola); no simple correlation
- Jamie will explore using statistics on hospitals and clinics as an alternative
- Integration builds will continue to appear every Friday; they are up to date
2. Feature Requests
- New plug in to measure poverty: Jamie is exploring stats as in item 1 above
- New plug in for roads in Africa: Jamie still working on this
- Restricting air travel for certain compartments: Nereyda moving from smallpox to pneumonic plague; nothing new to report
- Three new requests to allow modeler to: work on this yet to be done
- Have batch to control sequencer
- Log automated experiments
- Modify sequencer to get automatic experiments to run batch
3.1. Update on Ebola Modeling: Kun
- Weekly call very successful
- Have open sourced Ebola model on transmission (funeral, sexual transmission after recovery)
- Working with University of Melbourne on importation
- Working with Richard Stovkis, Chief Medical Officer at Cures United on modeling interventions
- Will have 120 healthcare workers in Sierra Leone in January 2015
- Will have mobile lab center, 90 minutes from test to result
- Details, including slides, available at https://wiki.eclipse.org/Weekly_Community_Ebola_Modeling_Phone_Call#Agenda
3.2. Update on Ebola Modeling: Jamie
- Kun invited to participate in White House conference call
- Simone invited to two events in DC, first by Intel, second by House of Representatives
4. Items from BfR: Chris
- No report re Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) or Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm
- Will look at one software tool for biology and epidemiology 5. Bugs: Any to report?
5. Bugs: See item 1, fixed
6. Items from Participants
- Kun and Stefan to present to Science Working Group at EclipseCon in March
- Update from Matt: working with University of Melbourne and Australian government on Ebola in effort to build a more accurate, point-to-point air travel model (purchased data), bidirectional migration; hope to have report on progress soon
- Chris attended meeting in Berlin, heard researchers from a German university present their work to build methods to model numbers of mosquitoes in certain areas and the likelihood that they carried certain diseases
- Chris to email them regarding possible collaboration, contribution of their model
- Jamie invited to annual conference on neglected tropical diseases to be held at London Zoo in March
- Kun may be in Spain to present in March, if so, could attend
- Chris might possibly join Kun there
