Most recently, as part of a research network organized by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences called the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS), we have been adapting EpiSims to model a naturally occurring disease that may threaten the entire planet: pandemic influenza.

   
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
CHRIS L. BARRETT, STEPHEN G. EUBANK and JAMES P. SMITH worked for five years together at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to develop the EpiSims simulation. Barrett, who oversaw a predecessor project, TRANSIMS, is a bioinformatics specialist who now directs the Simulation Science Laboratory at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) in Blacksburg. Eubank, a physicist, is deputy director of the VBI simulation lab and was EpiSims team leader at Los Alamos. Smith, also a physicist, continues to work with simulations related to TRANSIMS as the project office leader for Discrete Simulation Science in the LANL Computer and Computational Sciences Division.