Notes from the STEM Community Call
August 18, 2016
On the call: James Kaufman, Stefan Edlund, Kun Hu, Matt Davis, Matthias Filter, Judy Douglas, Tabea Kropf, and Mark Kunitomi
New to call: Tabea Kropf, an intern at a large re-insurance company in Switzerland working on diseases in livestock; Mark Kunitomi, a virologist from UCSF now at IBM with a molecular focus
NEXT CALL: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
1. STEM Integration Build with bug fix for problem with Windows x86 now up
*Next milestone set for October 20, 2016
*Will add current release to options in Bugzilla
*Will set date for new version when work on evolving disease model is completed
2. Ongoing Feature Work
*Jamie: Continuing work with UC Davis on genomics and evolving disease model
*Nereyda (not on call): Using STEM as part of her doctoral work on pandemics and biodefense
3. Updates
*Kun: Gave talk at UC Santa Clara; working with Santa Clara county health officials (director from CDC, 9 epidemiologists on staff) on Zika, other infectious diseases including TB (from international sources) and West Nile disease (mosquito borne)
*Tabea: Working on disease spread in livestock; consulted with Jamie and Matthias on modeling
*Matthias: Collaborating with Poland on African swine fever disease; spreads from Russia, Baltic countries; leads to destruction of animal; worked with other agency in Germany charged to handle this type of issue; will give workshop on this October 24-25, present play models using STEM
4. Bugs
*Bug 499773 has been fixed in integration build (STEM-3.0.0M3-win32.win32.x86_64 Logger files cannot be written)
*May be source of Kamesh’s problem with dengue model, bug 465981
*Jamie: Old bug with stochastic solver due to a law of nature?
*Tabea: Not sure if problem with predicate has been resolved
TO DO FOR ALL: Always report bugs on stem-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx as well as Bugzilla
5. Items from Participants
*Matthias: Asked whether fitting model parameters will work for customized models; subsequent to call, sent link to Kun, who fixed error in documentation, confirmed function has worked/will work
*Resources identified: Database on African Swine Fever with geo-coders at Empres/I (Tabea); graph on poultry in all of China (Jamie)