STEM Community Call Notes for October 2, 2014
On the call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Matthias, Judy
1. STEM 2.0.2 up; next release scheduled for October 22
Bug fixes in but may need to change date
2. Feature requests
*From Nereyda, for dissertation: Restricting air travel for certain compartments
* From Jamie: Implement roads in Africa – Able to get from open street maps?
3. Possible use of the standards-based Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) for predictive disease modeling – No update
4. Possible use of Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm – No update
5. Bugs
*Zero population regions fixed in Africa
*Map logger fixed
*Need to check world for zero population areas
6. Ebola modeling – Updates from Kun & Jamie
*Items on wiki: Join STEM Ebola group via newsgroup
*New community members, weekly call: Information on wiki
*Publication (Kun: No news)
*Agenda for next week (Jamie to work with Judy; will send to volunteer moderator, Caitlin who is at Virginia Tech)
*Will also send separate email on links
7. Items from Participants
*Matthias: Chris has created several research proposals for BfR using STEM; interested in way to ease burden of collecting information from scientific literature
*TO DO (Jamie): Send Matthias IBM contact
*Jamie: All are welcome to join the Ebola call