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BioPortal Infectious Disease Informatics research: disease surveillance and situational awareness

In this project summary, we briefly present the disease monitoring and situational awareness infrastructure developed in BioPortal, our NSF-funded Infectious Disease Informatics project. We focus on two areas: social network analysis for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and global Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) surveillance based on news monitoring. SARS is an example of a highly contagious disease that transmits via multiple vectors. By incorporating geographical contacts into social network analysis (SNA) and contact tracing, we are able to achieve a much higher connectivity than through contact tracing alone. FMD is a disease that wreaks havoc on farm animals and therefore on farm economy, and global FMD situational awareness is critical to protecting agronomy investments. By monitoring online news sources for FMD-related news and developing an accurate classification system, we can keep public health personnel apprised of outbreaks and potential outbreak situations. The results reported herein are based on collaborative efforts between the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at the University of Arizona, the National Taiwan University, and the FMD Lab at University of California-Davis.