A software platform for collaborative infectious disease modelling
摘要
To better respond to threats, decision-makers are increasingly interested in predictions they can understand and trust. Collaborative modelling can help increase the relevance, transparency and robustness of predictions. This approach can be facilitated with hubs or centralized data repositories to collect, analyze and communicate model output. Here we introduce the hubverse, a suite of standards and software tools to streamline the creation and operation of collaborative modelling hubs. Hubverse file structure and model output standards enable the use of common tools to validate, aggregate, visualize, evaluate and communicate model output. Currently, the hubverse is used by nearly two dozen collaborative and local modelling hubs around the globe to support infectious disease modelling efforts, including hubs hosted and/or used by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Australia–Aotearoa Consortium for Epidemic Forecasting and Analytics and California Department of Public Health.