introductory slides for the makerbay/odhk #zikahackathon

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: Guangzhou

http://www.gdwst.gov.cn/a/yiqingxx/

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/