Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

DOI

10.1016/j.softx.2023.101357

Publication Title

SoftwareX

Volume

22

Pages

101357 (1-7)

Abstract

The Graphical User Interface (GUI) MarineEpi is presented as a Matlab toolbox for easily (i) constructing disease transmission models for different marine host-pathogen systems, (ii) running simulations by specifying initial conditions and model parameters, and (iii) interpreting the resulting time series of the host and pathogen population dynamics. MarineEpi users can generate models for systems in which pathogen transmission occurs through contact with infected individuals (SI), contact with dead infected individuals (SID), contact with environmental pathogens released by infected individuals (SIP), and contact with environmental pathogens released by dead infected individuals (SIPD). MarineEpi is a freely available GUI that provides the capability for marine disease researchers and managers to understand disease dynamics processes and mechanisms using a quantitative modeling framework. In addition, it can be a valuable learning tool for teaching marine disease processes in engineering, environmental science and epidemiology curricula.

Rights

© 2023 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License.

Data Availability

Article states: "No data was used for the research described in the article."

"Permanent link to code/repository used for this code version https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX/SOFTX-D-23-00010"

Original Publication Citation

Bidegain, G., Ben-Horin, T., Powell, E. N., Klinck, J. M., & Hofmann, E. E. (2023). MarineEpi: A GUI-based Matlab toolbox to simulate marine pathogen transmission. SoftwareX, 22, 1-7, Article 101357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101357

ORCID

0000-0003-4312-5201 (Klinck), 0000-0001-6710-4371 (Hofmann)

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