Technologies (May 2022)

STAMINA: Bioinformatics Platform for Monitoring and Mitigating Pandemic Outbreaks

  • Nikolaos Bakalos,
  • Maria Kaselimi,
  • Nikolaos Doulamis,
  • Anastasios Doulamis,
  • Dimitrios Kalogeras,
  • Mathaios Bimpas,
  • Agapi Davradou,
  • Aggeliki Vlachostergiou,
  • Anaxagoras Fotopoulos,
  • Maria Plakia,
  • Alexandros Karalis,
  • Sofia Tsekeridou,
  • Themistoklis Anagnostopoulos,
  • Angela Maria Despotopoulou,
  • Ilaria Bonavita,
  • Katrina Petersen,
  • Leonidas Pelepes,
  • Lefteris Voumvourakis,
  • Anastasia Anagnostou,
  • Derek Groen,
  • Kate Mintram,
  • Arindam Saha,
  • Simon J. E. Taylor,
  • Charon van der Ham,
  • Patrick Kaleta,
  • Dražen Ignjatović,
  • Luca Rossi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10030063
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
p. 63

Abstract

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This paper presents the components and integrated outcome of a system that aims to achieve early detection, monitoring and mitigation of pandemic outbreaks. The architecture of the platform aims at providing a number of pandemic-response-related services, on a modular basis, that allows for the easy customization of the platform to address user’s needs per case. This customization is achieved through its ability to deploy only the necessary, loosely coupled services and tools for each case, and by providing a common authentication, data storage and data exchange infrastructure. This way, the platform can provide the necessary services without the burden of additional services that are not of use in the current deployment (e.g., predictive models for pathogens that are not endemic to the deployment area). All the decisions taken for the communication and integration of the tools that compose the platform adhere to this basic principle. The tools presented here as well as their integration is part of the project STAMINA.

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