Making Transmission Models Accessible to End-Users: The Example of TRANSFIL

Autor: Irvine, MA, Hollingsworth, TD, Churcher, TS
Přispěvatelé: Churcher, T
Rok vydání: 2017
Předmět:
0301 basic medicine
Computer Applications
Computer Architecture
User-Computer Interface
0302 clinical medicine
From Innovation to Application
RA0421
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medicine
Public and Occupational Health
lcsh:Public aspects of medicine
Simulation and Modeling
11 Medical And Health Sciences
Filariasis
Infectious Diseases
Helminth Infections
Web-Based Applications
Neglected tropical diseases
The Internet
Science policy
User interface
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Computer and Information Sciences
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
Infectious Disease Control
lcsh:RC955-962
Science Policy
030231 tropical medicine
Research and Analysis Methods
Models
Biological
World Wide Web
03 medical and health sciences
Elephantiasis
Filarial
Tropical Medicine
Environmental health
Parasitic Diseases
Web application
Humans
Internet
Science & Technology
business.industry
End user
Lymphatic Filariasis
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
lcsh:RA1-1270
06 Biological Sciences
Tropical Diseases
030104 developmental biology
Transmission (telecommunications)
Parasitology
business
User Interfaces
Zdroj: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 11, Iss 2, p e0005206 (2017)
ISSN: 1935-2735
1935-2727
Popis: Here, we introduce a newly developed online web interface for the lymphatic filariasis transmission model TRANSFIL, which is validated for Wucheria bancrofti transmission and has been used in a recent study of the potential impact of the new triple drug. We hope this demonstrates how modern web technologies can be exploited to produce model interfaces that are able to overcome the challenges listed above, although some challenges remain. This tool is targeted at users who have some awareness of and an interest in mathematical modelling for lymphatic filariasis policy and who would like to investigate the models further, but who do not have the technical expertise to program the models themselves. This will include some researchers and policy makers in the area of NTDs. We hope it will generate an active discussion between the modellers and these users on what types of analyses are most useful for these users.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: