EPIC Scotland

EPIC (Epidemiology, Population health and Infectious disease Control) is an ambitious Scottish-based animal heath consortium project. 

Broadwick is a framework for developing sophisticated epidemiological based mathematical models, and consists of several Java libraries and bespoke packages. The components of Broadwick are written in such a way that a scientist may combine them in order to rapidly prototype a model for a new specific scenario.

Features

- Supports single (e.g. within herd) or structured populations (e.g. multi-species or locations)
- Inclusion of movement over network data (e.g. Cattle movement Tracing System)
- Stochastic Individual Based simulations (including fast approximate options)
- Approximate Bayesian Computation inference for estimating model parameters from data via simulations
- Monte Carol Markov Chain inference for estimating model parameters from data

Learn more about Broadwick at http://epicscotland.github.io/broadwick.html