Tools

Inspired by collaborative and multidisciplinary efforts in the scientific community, the Institute for Disease Modeling builds modeling tools that result from extensive collaboration among members of our research and software teams. These innovative tools provide quantitative and analytical means to model the transmission of infectious diseases. IDM software tools are freely shared with the scientific community to accelerate disease eradication efforts using computational modeling.

  • phyloModels

    phyloModels is a Python-based library that provides a suite of utilities for modeling and calibration, with a particular emphasis on leveraging phylogenetic data. This library is designed to help researchers and analysts in understanding evolutionary relationships and patterns by integrating phylogenetic data into their models, thereby enhancing the accuracy and relevance of their findings. Our…

  • RAINIER

    RAINIER is a statistical approach for fitting SEIR epidemic models to case and mortality data. We use the approach to create models of COVID-19 transmission in King County, WA

  • Starsim

    Starsim is a fast, flexible agent-based disease modeling framework. It is an open-source toolbox for simulating the spread of multiple diseases among agents via dynamic transmission networks. Publications Research areas Vaccine-preventable diseases Women’s reproductive, infant, and child health

  • Subnational Family Planning Estimation Tool

    The subnational family planning estimation tool (SFPET) is an interactive web app created to aid policymakers in assessing progress towards family planning goals by visualizing both model-based and direct survey estimates of family planning indicators at the subnational level.

  • WES

    The WES R package provides reproducible functions for collating and analyzing data from wastewater and environmental sampling studies. Wastewater and environmental sampling (WES) of infectious diseases involves collecting samples from various sources (such as sewage, water, air, soil, or surfaces) to monitor the presence of pathogens in the environment. Analysis of WES data often requires…