| [stem-dev] Notes from today's STEM community call |
STEM Community Call January 10, 2013 On Call: Jamie, Matt, Kun, Matthias, Alex, Daniel, Werner, Judy, and Anne Neubauer (aegiscreative) Welcome, Anne! Anne: Working w/ Kendall to help Gates Foundation on biosurveillance project; background in biomedical engineering 1. V2.0 (or add a V1.5 release) Plan discussion Features: TO DO: Next week when Stefan is back, discuss whether we should do an interim version V1.5 TO DO: Jamie and Matt to get Apache 3.1 approved by Eclipse Foundation (Apache has fixed their bug) None identified Danny: Has added a batch function; based on a finite # of observed events, can output probability that actual contamination came from a particular distributor; can speed up investigation process after an event TO DO: Danny will commit patch 5. Items from Participants Werner: Can Noro virus be modeled? Matthias: Noro virus outbreak in strawberries last autumn wasn’t very powerful in human-to-human spread; thus not current focus; Werner: Can arise in future; Jamie: If so, and if data available, would be interest Werner: Communicating w/ chairman of Austrian NGO Foundation for HIV awareness and prevention about STEM; Anne: Gates Foundation now focused on malaria and polio; ultimate goal includes different disease states TO DO: If opportunity arises, Werner will put Austrian in touch w/ Anne Anne: Interested in linking data sources not traditionally linked, e.g., epidemiological, demographic, genetic; Jamie: STEM plug ins must be consistent w/ Eclipse public license, but STEM allows users to work w/ their own public health data w/o sharing; some genetic data may be available to develop as plug ins; Matthias: Focus over last several years on STEM in food chain modeling; this year to focus on community repository for disease models; working to improve STEM to create new model types & share them; linking data always difficult, STEM may not be the answer; Jamie: Data always heterogeneous; Matthias: Serotyping data may become publicly available soon (ecoli data from cbio) TO DO: Matthias will post link on newsgroup Alex: Interested in stochastic modeling. Jamie: Will be available once Apache 3.1 is in STEM; Matt: Will be more like Matlab than Java; Jamie: Automatic stochastic model will allow user decide where to add noise (e.g., by using mosquito model) Alex: How to share the model he has created? Jamie: Can export as plug in for user w/ standalone version of STEM w/ drop-in function Jamie: Eclipse is designed for sharing, never limits it: users can create their own update sites Werner: Will be Santa Clara next week, will email Jamie his schedule so they can meet |