Making a Difference in Animal Health and Disease Tracking
Abstract. The
paper presents a description of the FMD BioPortal™
bio- surveillance system that is currently operating to capture,
analyze, and disseminate global data on foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease.
The FMD BioPortal™ makes available to users world-wide FMD-related data
from the Institute for Animal Health at Pirbright, England. The
system’s tools include those for tabulating and graphing
data,
performing spatio-temporal cluster analysis of outbreak cases of FMD,
and analyzing genomic changes in FMD viruses. The FMD BioPortal also
includes the FMD News,
which is a near real time web search to identify and capture
FMD-related news items appearing worldwide. Major systems components
include a communication backbone for secure, real-time data transfer, a
data analysis module that can run analytical programs to assess
spatial-temporal clustering, and an interactive visualization tool for
integrated analysis and display of epidemiological and genomic data.
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