introductory slides for the makerbay/odhk #zikahackathon
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Zika: a “data gap” issue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-considers-reforming-biosecurity-law-amid-criticism/2016/02/05/ba2108ba-cc80-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html
Closed Data Kills: Need Open Approaches
Climate change, global hunger, pollution, cancer, disease outbreaks…
http://www.nature.com/news/data-sharing-make-outbreak-research-open-access-1.16966
Know your enemy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus
Zika virus: to date
Dengue virus: to date
Dengue virus: Singapore
http://www.dengue.gov.sg/subject.asp?id=74
Dengue virus: Hong Kong
http://www.chp.gov.hk/en/notifiable1/10/26/43.html
Model/track vectors?
https://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-west-nile-virus
Vector tracking: Hong Kong
http://www.fehd.gov.hk/english/safefood/dengue_fever/
52 locations = >98% of HK not covered.
Crowdsourced approaches?
http://www.ondeestaoaedes.com.br/
Genomics approaches?Get more data with portable genome labs? Can we get nanopores?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v530/n7589/full/nature16996.html
Genomics approaches?
http://ebola.nextstrain.org/
Genomics approaches?
http://ebola.nextstrain.org/
Approaching 20+ genomes available for analysis (3 published)
Paper diagnostics?
OSHW approaches
http://www.instructables.com/id/Mosquito-Killing-Ovitrap/