Software
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EMOD (Epidemiological MODeling software) has been developed and is maintained by the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM), and also used by the Malaria Modeling Group at Northwestern University.
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OpenMalaria has been developed and is maintained by the Global Disease Modelling team of The Kids Reseach Institute Australia, the Disease Modelling Unit of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and sciCORE of the University of Basel.
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malariasimulation has been developed and is maintained by the Imperial College London.
Table: Overview of model software and infrastructure
| EMOD | OpenMalaria | malariasimulation | |
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| Documentation | https://docs.idmod.org/projects/emod-malaria/en/latest/index.html | https://github.com/SwissTPH/openmalaria/wiki | https://mrc-ide.github.io/malariasimulation/index.html |
| GitHub | https://github.com/EMOD-Hub/emodpy-malaria | https://github.com/SwissTPH/openmalaria/ | https://github.com/mrc-ide/malariasimulation |
| Accessibility | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| Language | C++ | C++ | C++/R |
| First published | 2013 | 2006-2008 | 2010 |
| Framework | Python (emodpy-malaria, idm-tools) | Python or R, varying by user group | R >= 4.0.0 |
| OS | Windows, Linux | Windows, Linux, (Mac OS) | Windows, Linux |
| Default timesteps | 1 day | 5 day | 1 day |
| Input file type | json | XML | R script |
| Output file type | json | txt | stored in the R environment |
| N input files | 5+ | 1 | NA |
| N output files | custom | 2 | NA |
| Glossary | https://docs.idmod.org/projects/emod-malaria/en/latest/glossary.html | https://github.com/SwissTPH/openmalaria/wiki/Terminology | help(malariasimulation), https://mrc-ide.github.io/malariasimulation/articles/Model.html |