CHIME and Nextstrain: Open Source Projects for Health

CHIME and Nextstrain: Open Source Projects for Human Health

CHIME and Nextstrain: Open Source Projects for Human Health

CHIME and Nextstrain are 2 good examples, of how the Free Software and Open Source, they have a huge beneficial potential to offer, many times greater than similar projects of Private Software and Closed Code, not only in the technological field but also in the scientific one and especially, in the field of Human health.

These wonderful Medical Projects currently in place, to collaborate with this fight against COVID-19, which today seriously afflicts the Humanity, collaborate so much in operational or managerial part on how to deal with this and other disease outbreaks in medical and hospital institutions, such as the analytical part, that is, in the field of epidemiological understanding to help mitigate and eliminate the causes and effects of disease outbreaks.

CHIME and Nextstrain: Introduction

As we have read in other previous posts, Open Source Projects for Human Health or especially focused on Fight against COVID-19 there are several, among which it is worth mentioning GNU Health and OpenEMR for the first case, like la GISAID Initiative, the Software Rampart, Mesh Computing Projects Folding @ home y Rosetta @ home for the second case.

Therefore, today we will do the honor to talk about CHIME and Nextstrain.

CHIME and Nextstrain: Content

CHIME and Nextstrain: Open Source Projects

CHIME

Su Official website, describes it as follows:

"The CHIME (COVID-19 Hospital Impact Model for Epidemics) app is designed to help hospitals and public health officials understand the capacity needs of hospitals in relation to the COVID pandemic. CHIME enables capacity planning by providing estimates of the daily total (ie new) and ongoing totals (ie census) of inpatient hospitalizations, ICU admissions, and patients requiring ventilation. These estimates are generated using a SIR (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered) model, a standard epidemiological modeling technique.".

Therefore, the main positive impact of CHIME in the fight against COVID-19 is to allow and facilitate countless people and / or governments to prepare their hospitals, cities and regions for the crisis they face or await. Specifically allows users of it, predict the expected number of hospitalized patients and daily admissions so that they can estimate the magnitude of the impact on their location and when they will need to have mitigation strategies in place.

To know more about CHIME you can access your website at GitHub.

nextstrain

Su Official website, describes it as follows:

“Nextstrain is an open source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. We provide a continuously updated view of publicly available data along with powerful visualization and analytics tools for use by the community. Our goal is to help epidemiological understanding and improve the response to outbreaks ”.

Therefore, the main objective of nextstrain is to help any public or private institution, or to keep an effective and efficient record of the real-time evolution of any pathogen, mainly now, the COVID-19 that is causing so much havoc in the world.

To know more about nextstrain you can access your website at GitHub.

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Conclusion

We hope this "useful little post" about these 2 «Proyectos de Código Abierto en pro de la salud» called «CHIME y Nextstrain», which are of great support and importance in these difficult times that humanity faces globally, is of great interest and usefulness, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».

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