epiModel: a system to build automatically systems of differential equations of compartmental type-epidemiological models

Juan-C Cortés; Almudena Sánchez-Sánchez; Francisco-J Santonja; Rafael-J Villanueva

doi:10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.018

epiModel: a system to build automatically systems of differential equations of compartmental type-epidemiological models

Comput Biol Med. 2011 Nov;41(11):999-1005. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.018. Epub 2011 Sep 15.

Authors

Juan-C Cortés¹, Almudena Sánchez-Sánchez, Francisco-J Santonja, Rafael-J Villanueva

Affiliation

¹ Instituto Universitario de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Edificio 8G piso 2, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain. [email protected]

PMID: 21924710
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.06.018

Abstract

In this paper we describe epiModel, a code developed in Mathematica that facilitates the building of systems of differential equations corresponding to type-epidemiological linear or quadratic models whose characteristics are defined in text files following an easy syntax. It includes the possibility of obtaining the equations of models involving age and/or sex groups.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computer Simulation*
Epidemiologic Methods*
Models, Biological*
Programming Languages*